Get-History Does Not Work in Interactive Window

[Nick De Lancie]

For VS Community 2017 v. 15.9.13, | PoshTools v. 4.7.1 (not Pro) | $PSVersionTable output at end

The standard PowerShell cmdlet Get-History does not work in the PowerShell Interactive Window--it just returns a blank line. The up and down arrows do, however, run up and down the command history stack.

\$MaximumHistoryCount gives the default 4096 and (Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath gives the default C:\Users\[UserID]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio Host_history.txt

This file is not, however, updated (I think it is a vestige from prior use of Windows PowerShell ISE).

Under Windows PowerShell ISE, Get-History works as expected.

PSVersion                      5.1.15063.1563
PSEdition                      Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion                   10.0.15063.1563
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1