Is there a terminal emulator with up- down output?

Question

The idea just hit me but it's very hard to find something in search or on google (up and down are popular keywords...).
Here's my idea: the terminal I use (urxvt) and every other I heard of always outputs text sort of 'upwards'. Meaning: the prompt line is mostly on the bottom (and if you use a tiling wm like me it's mostly on the bottom of the screen), well except for new terminal windows of course.
I thought it would be cool if it could be on the top of the screen and the lines would be output towards the bottom of the window. Get it? If you would take a normal terminal window and reverse the lines order, this would be exactly what I need.
Quick example:
A normal terminal
[user@desktop]: ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 5 user user 4096 Jan 17 12:53 dir1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 30 Dec 23 17:14 a-link
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Feb 10 13:26 dir2
[user@desktop]: _
What I would like
[user@desktop]: _
drwxr-xr-x 5 user user 4096 Jan 17 12:53 dir1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 30 Dec 23 17:14 a-link
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Feb 10 13:26 dir2
[user@desktop]: ls -l
Get it? Top -> down! So the prompt always gravitates toward the top of the window (provided enough output of course)
So anyway, back to the question: is there a terminal emulator that can do it?
Last edited by kosmiciatakuja (2011-03-14 10:47:55)

Answer 1

lives2evil wrote:Interesting idea!
But no, as far as I know there's no such things.
Any if you think it a little further, it's a trouble some idea. You may not notice with a simple "ls" command but with something more complex trouble will pop up every where.
How about you try and think how exactly will you implemented this idea.
Could be fun (Tried it).
Heh yea, i just did the same and came to the same conclusions.