Coloring existing and non-existing commands

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
cli

Research direction

The issue does not name specific files, tests, or entry points; begin by locating PSReadLine's command and path rendering behavior. Done means existing commands are colored green, non-existing commands red, and existing paths or filenames are underlined without changing the behavior for missing paths.

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Issue-Enhancement Issue-Triaged Not-Planned

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Inspired by zsh's plugin zsh-syntax-highlighting, the feature that coloring existing cmdlets, functions, script files, or executable programs with green and non-existing ones with red. Besides, it can underline paths or filenames if they are existing and does not underline if they does not exist.
From #687.
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