Use CTRL + D to exit and CTRL + L to cls in Powershell console

Question

I am trying to make

CTRL + D - exit Powershell console

and

CTRL + L - clear the screen

like in bash.

Answer 1

There is also a PowerShell snapin called PSEventing which will allow you to do this (see the demo on the front page:

http://pseventing.codeplex.com/releases/view/66587

# clear screen in response to ctrl+L, unix style 
register-hotkeyevent "ctrl+L" -action { cls; write-host -nonewline (prompt) }