[BUG] Console.clear not handled for CMD and Powershell

[marvintensuan]

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Describe the bug

Console.clear has not been handled (properly) for cmd and powershell since Rich 12.0.0.

Based on #2055 and #2066, rich 12.0.0 introduced using native windows console API for legacy terminals.

I'm posting this under [BUG] since rich 11.2 is able to clear console without problems. Apologies if this is a duplicate. Here's an external link from Microsoft for Clearing the Screen but something like this will work for me personally:

class LegacyWindowsTerm:
    ...
    def clear(self) -> None:
        """Clear screen."""

        FillConsoleOutputCharacter(
            self._handle,
            " ",
            self.screen_size.row * self.screen_size.col,
            WindowsCoordinates(0, 0)
        )

        # or
        # os.system("cls")

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import this
from rich.console import Console

Console().clear()

Platform

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What platform (Win/Linux/Mac) are you running on? What terminal software are you using?

Windows Powershell and CMD

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If you're using Rich in a terminal:

┌───────────────────────── <class 'rich.console.Console'> ─────────────────────────┐
│ A high level console interface.                                                  │
│                                                                                  │
│ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ <console width=119 ColorSystem.WINDOWS>                                      │ │
│ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
│                                                                                  │
│     color_system = 'windows'                                                     │
│         encoding = 'utf-8'                                                       │
│             file = <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'> │
│           height = 43                                                            │
│    is_alt_screen = False                                                         │
│ is_dumb_terminal = False                                                         │
│   is_interactive = True                                                          │
│       is_jupyter = False                                                         │
│      is_terminal = True                                                          │
│   legacy_windows = True                                                          │
│         no_color = False                                                         │
│          options = ConsoleOptions(                                               │
│                        size=ConsoleDimensions(width=119, height=43),             │
│                        legacy_windows=True,                                      │
│                        min_width=1,                                              │
│                        max_width=119,                                            │
│                        is_terminal=True,                                         │
│                        encoding='utf-8',                                         │
│                        max_height=43,                                            │
│                        justify=None,                                             │
│                        overflow=None,                                            │
│                        no_wrap=False,                                            │
│                        highlight=None,                                           │
│                        markup=None,                                              │
│                        height=None                                               │
│                    )                                                             │
│            quiet = False                                                         │
│           record = False                                                         │
│         safe_box = True                                                          │
│             size = ConsoleDimensions(width=119, height=43)                       │
│        soft_wrap = False                                                         │
│           stderr = False                                                         │
│            style = None                                                          │
│         tab_size = 8                                                             │
│            width = 119                                                           │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌─── <class 'rich._windows.WindowsConsoleFeatures'> ────┐
│ Windows features available.                           │
│                                                       │
│ ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ WindowsConsoleFeatures(vt=False, truecolor=False) │ │
│ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
│                                                       │
│ truecolor = False                                     │
│        vt = False                                     │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────── Environment Variables ───────┐
│ {                                  │
│     'TERM': None,                  │
│     'COLORTERM': None,             │
│     'CLICOLOR': None,              │
│     'NO_COLOR': None,              │
│     'TERM_PROGRAM': None,          │
│     'COLUMNS': None,               │
│     'LINES': None,                 │
│     'JUPYTER_COLUMNS': None,       │
│     'JUPYTER_LINES': None,         │
│     'JPY_PARENT_PID': None,        │
│     'VSCODE_VERBOSE_LOGGING': None │
│ }                                  │
└────────────────────────────────────┘
platform="Windows"

rich==13.5.2

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