PSReadLine

2.0.0-beta2

Great command line editing in the PowerShell console host

Minimum PowerShell version

5.0

This is a prerelease version of PSReadLine.
There is a newer prerelease version of this module available.
See the version list below for details.

Installation Options

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Install-Module -Name PSReadLine -RequiredVersion 2.0.0-beta2 -AllowPrerelease

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Install-PSResource -Name PSReadLine -Version 2.0.0-beta2 -Prerelease

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Owners

Copyright

(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Package Details

Author(s)

  • Microsoft Corporation

Cmdlets

Get-PSReadLineKeyHandler Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler Remove-PSReadLineKeyHandler Get-PSReadLineOption Set-PSReadLineOption

Functions

PSConsoleHostReadLine

Dependencies

This module has no dependencies.

Release Notes

### Version 2.0.0-beta2

Pre-release notes:

Bug fixes:

* Fix issue with keyboard layout changes (#667) (Thanks @powercode)
* Fix cursor placement after window resize (#682) (Thanks @jianyunt)
* Fix rendering of long lines on non-Windows (#686) (Thanks @jianyunt)
* Fix Ctrl+h/Backspace on non-Windows (#619) (Thanks @daxian-dbw)
* Fix some custom key bindings on Windows (#580) (Thanks @daxian-dbw)
* Fixed CompleteMenu in vi insert mode (#651) (Thanks @srdubya)
* Fix ExtraPromptLineCount for ClearScreen (#634) (Thanks @daxian-dbw)
* Support color escape sequences in PromptText (#653) (Thanks @powercode)
* Support Ctrl+u in vi insert mode (#628) (Thanks @srdubya)
* Fix keys needing AltGr (#617)
* Fix vi-mode cursor placement issues (#623) (Thanks @srdubya)
* Ignore exceptions when setting OutputEncoding
* Fix hang on closing on pre-Win10 (#609)
* Enable Ctrl+c on non-Windows (#610)
* Improve VT emulation for pre-Win10 (#605)

### Version 2.0.0-beta1

Pre-release notes:

There are known issues:

* Some custom key bindings are broken (#580)

Breaking changes:
* Requires PowerShell V5 or later and .Net 4.6.1
* Set-PSReadLineOption options have changed
 - To specify colors, use the new `-Color` parameter and pass a Hashtable
 - All other color options have been removed include `-ResetTokenColors`
 - To specify background colors, you must now use a VT escape sequence.
* Changing the end of the prompt to red may not work automatically anymore if
 your prompt is non-trivial. To fix, use `Set-PSReadLineOption -PromptText "> "`.
* Consistently use `PSReadLine` instead of `PSReadline` everywhere, APIs, cmdlets, files, etc.
* Building requires VS2017

New features:
* Interactive filtering during menu complete (#515) (Thanks @MVKozlov!)
* Redirected input now works (#564) (Thanks @parkovski!)
* Tooltips always on in MenuComplete (only displayed
 if they give more information than the completion.)
* Get-PSReadLineKeyHandler output is grouped by category. (#114)
* Support for VT escape sequences to specify colors.
* Shift+Insert bound to Paste in Windows mode (#484)
* Ctrl+t bound to SwapCharacters in Emacs mode (#538) (Thanks andrewcromwell!)
* Ctrl+x,Ctrl+e bound to ViEditVisually in Emacs mode (#478)
* HistoryNoDuplicates is now on by default (#208)

Bug fixes:
* DeleteChar no longer deletes any text left of the cursor in Windows/Emacs
 and matches vim behavior of working like <x> in command mode.
* Fix InvokePrompt when the prompt is > 1 line.
* Fix YankToPercent off by 1 error.
* Fix error reported when running in container.
* Catch and ignore execptions in InvokePrompt (#583)
* Get new completions on 2nd tab if 1st had 1 result (#238)
* Tab replaced with 4 spaces during paste (#144)
* Fix rendering after buffer resize (#418)
* Invoke external editor w/o AcceptLine (#339)
* Fix exception with UpArrow after a command line edit in vi-mode (#573) (Thanks @srdubya!)
* Treat DingDuration=0 as BellStyle.None (#364)
* Color long name parameters like --force as a parameter (#398)
* Allow CaptureScreen to be used w/o a key binding (#419)
* Ignore duplicates during tab completion (#413)
* Fix exception with negative count in Delete (#502)
* Use correct help file name (#507)
* Fix exception in ShowKeyBinding w/ custom handler (#505)
* Normalize filename for saving history (#512)
* Treat end of buffer as whitespace for vi words (#536)
* Fix exception with invalid CompletionResult (#534)
* Fix exception with negative count in Kill* (#540) (Thanks andrewcromwell!)
* Fixes to SwapCharacters (#538) (Thanks andrewcromwell!)
* Fix cursor placement with CJK characters (#542)
* Fix key bindings with certain Windows keyboard layouts (#168 #556)
* Remove Ding from Backspace on an empty line (#422)
* Fix occasional hang reading history file (#524)
* HistorySearchCursorMovesToEnd previously only worked in incremental search.
 It is now on by default, honored in the non-incremental search (HistorySearch)
 and also in Vi Command mode for non-search history recall. (#438 #530) (Thanks @srdubya!)

(For older history see Changes.txt)

FileList

Version History

Version Downloads Last updated
2.4.0-beta0 6,463 3/2/2024
2.3.5 94,834 4/3/2024
2.3.4 602,069 10/3/2023
2.3.3 19,576 9/18/2023
2.3.2-beta2 4,862 8/17/2023
2.3.1-beta1 13,334 5/3/2023
2.3.0-beta0 7,715 3/8/2023
2.2.6 410,265 6/27/2022
2.2.5 71,380 5/3/2022
2.2.4-beta1 1,788 4/27/2022
2.2.3 18,244 4/20/2022
2.2.2 82,493 2/22/2022
2.2.1-rc1 8,101 1/28/2022
2.2.0-beta5 10,311 1/7/2022
2.2.0-beta4 36,351 10/27/2021
2.2.0-beta3 31,074 6/1/2021
2.2.0-beta2 23,706 2/23/2021
2.2.0-beta1 27,134 11/4/2020
2.1.0 381,650 11/2/2020
2.1.0-rc1 4,406 10/13/2020
2.1.0-beta2 23,059 6/6/2020
2.1.0-beta1 11,932 4/7/2020
2.0.4 23,633 8/5/2020
2.0.3 5,118 7/22/2020
2.0.2 28,519 6/5/2020
2.0.1 75,231 4/1/2020
2.0.0 23,359 2/11/2020
2.0.0-rc2 5,923 1/14/2020
2.0.0-rc1 7,037 12/11/2019
2.0.0-beta6 4,646 11/14/2019
2.0.0-beta5 13,051 9/13/2019
2.0.0-beta4 14,735 5/7/2019
2.0.0-beta3 30,744 9/4/2018
2.0.0-beta2 (current version) 7,520 6/4/2018
2.0.0-beta1 2,272 12/6/2017
1.2 114,209 1/25/2016
1.0.0.13 12,757 2/18/2015
1.0.0.12 995 8/26/2014
1.0.0.11 408 6/13/2014
1.0.0.10 295 6/13/2014
1.0.0.9 297 6/11/2014
1.0.0.8 449 5/7/2014
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