No way to clear command history in RPC console or reset the console without restarting the node #897

1. 
   waketraindev commented at 7:37 am on September 25, 2025: none

   Issues, reports or feature requests related to the GUI should be opened directly on the GUI repo

   • I still think this issue should be opened here

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   No way to clear the command history of a RPC console. With the history remaining until client reset.

   Please add a way to either clear the command history or fully reset the console.

   Thanks in advance

2. 
   achow101 commented at 5:08 pm on September 25, 2025: member

   There’s already a clear history button in the top right corner of the console window, next to the font size buttons. It works fine for me.
3. 
   waketraindev commented at 5:11 pm on September 25, 2025: none

   There’s already a clear history button in the top right corner of the console window, next to the font size buttons. It works fine for me.

   Hello and thank you for the reply. I’m actually talking about the command input history in RPC console, the one in the input box where you use the arrow keys to browse and not the output/results/scrollback window that actually gets cleared.

   The output gets cleared and the input remains regardless if you close wallet, RPC console. It only resets by restarting the node

   Hope that clears it

4. 
   waketraindev commented at 5:32 pm on September 25, 2025: none

   My take on the fix,

   https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui/pull/882

5. 
   Geremia commented at 0:23 am on October 2, 2025: none

   Restarting bitcoin-qt doesn’t clear the command history for me.
6. 
   1440000bytes commented at 7:43 pm on October 10, 2025: none

   The output gets cleared and the input remains regardless if you close wallet, RPC console. It only resets by restarting the node

   This is a bug and core does not clear the history for migratewallet RPC from the console.

   0// don't add private key handling cmd's to the history
   1const QStringList historyFilter = QStringList()
   2    << "signmessagewithprivkey"
   3    << "signrawtransactionwithkey"
   4    << "walletpassphrase"
   5    << "walletpassphrasechange"
   6    << "encryptwallet";
   7
   8
   9}
   

   https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui/blob/master/src/qt/rpcconsole.cpp#L73C1-L81C2

7. 
   1440000bytes commented at 9:23 pm on October 10, 2025: none

   Related pull request: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui/pull/901

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