Expose the number of items shown in command completion list (ListViewMaxHeight) as a $PS variable to make it changable from UI.

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start in Prediction.Views.cs at ListViewMaxHeight and the nearby HistoryMaxCount constant. Trace how PSReadLine variables are exposed and how the command completion list reads these values. Done means both limits can be changed through the $PSReadLine UI without breaking completion behavior.

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Description of the new feature/enhancement

Expose the number of items shown in command completion list ListViewMaxHeight as a $PSReadLine variable to make it changeable from UI. This would probably also need to expose the (internal?) constant of HistoryMaxCount (10) as well, shown a few lines above.

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SO Refrence

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77627464/how-to-increase-number-of-history-items-shown-in-powershell-command-completion?noredirect=1

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