Multi-line text allows parts of Line 2 to bleed into Line 4 (if line 4 length is shorter than line 2 length)
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100
Research direction
Reproduce the visual bleed-through with the provided multi-line function, Windows Terminal, and Oh-my-posh with TransientPrompt enabled. Trace PSReadLine's multi-line display and redraw behavior, then verify that shorter later lines no longer retain text from earlier lines while execution remains unchanged.
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Description
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Exception report
No Exception, just a visual bug / Bleed-through of text
Previous analysis with Jan on Oh-my-posh: https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/issues/2911
Screenshot

Environment data
PS Version: 5.1.22621.436
PS HostName: ConsoleHost
PSReadLine Version: 2.2.6
PSReadLine EditMode: Windows
OS: 10.0.22621.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
BufferWidth: 345
BufferHeight: 47
Steps to reproduce
Select multi-line text, like this one:
function Get-StrictMode {
# returns the currently set StrictMode version 1, 2, 3
# or 0 if StrictMode is off.
try { $xyz = @(1); $null = ($null -eq $xyz[2]) }
catch { return 3 }
try { 'Not-a-Date'.Year }
catch { return 2 }
try { $null = ($undefined -gt 1) }
catch { return 1 }
return 0
}
Paste it into a session that has Oh-my-posh loaded with TransientPrompt enabled, the output is this:
[2022-10-08 15:48:44]❯ function Get-StrictMode { > # returns the currently set StrictMode version 1, 2, 3 > # or 0 if StrictMode is off.
> try { $xyz = @(1); $null = ($null -eq $xyz[2]) }, 2, 3
> catch { return 3 }de is off.
> try { $xyz = @(1); $null = ($null -eq $xyz[2]) }
> try { 'Not-a-Date'.Year }
> catch { return 2 }
> try { 'Not-a-Date'.Year }
> try { $null = ($undefined -gt 1) }
> catch { return 1 }
> try { $null = ($undefined -gt 1) }
> return 0return 1 }
> }
Expected behavior
Output displayed as-is
Actual behavior
On line 4, the text "de is off." is repeated from line 2. I could observe this on other terminals (Windows Terminal) with multi-line text as well.
This has no impact on the execution, but is a visual bug on the terminal.
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