PowerShell/PSReadLine

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A bash inspired readline implementation for PowerShell

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Indexed issues: 267

Dominant language: C#
License: BSD-2-Clause
Last GitHub push: Apr 8, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 21, 2026
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267 open issues indexed

Delete by word doesn't delete word boundary characters Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4141 · Opened Aug 26, 2024
IndexOutOfRange or ArgumentOutOfRange exception when using bck-i-search with a buffer height of 1 Open

Issue-Bug Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4139 · Opened Aug 26, 2024
Long single-line commands gets mangled when pasted in / sent over TTY Open

Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4100 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 7, 2024
Support List view for ReverseSearchHistory Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4091 · Opened Aug 3, 2024
Remove "L2tpPsk" from the history Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4077 · Opened Jul 17, 2024
PSReadLine doesn't respect cursor position when using `cmd+k` or `cmd+l` on macOS Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4074 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 16, 2024
Limit history to successful commands Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4065 · Opened Jul 8, 2024
Option to trigger `MenuComplete` on consecutive tab press, like Zsh's `AUTO_MENU` Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4056 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 1, 2024
Match keyboard key names on OSX Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4055 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 28, 2024
Get-PSRead...).HistorySavePath glitches the console when set to $null Open

Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4039 · Opened Jun 13, 2024
"alt+a" keys not working for SelectCommandArgument in Kde Neon Open

Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4033 · Opened Jun 8, 2024
uncaught exception when pressing PgUp/PgDn in bck-i-search Open

Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4032 · Opened Jun 7, 2024
Add option to change timeout of 20ms of ICommandPredictor ("ICommandPredictor interface has a 20ms time out for responses from the Predictors") Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4029 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 2, 2024
Set-PSReadLineOption is slow when called from profile Open

Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4022 · 15 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 25, 2024
Long completion tooltips freezes the console for a while Open

Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4020 · Opened May 21, 2024
Consider adding a `ViValidateAndAcceptLine` function for Vi's command mode Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4019 · Opened May 19, 2024
Consider using a default editor for the `ViEditVisually` function and / or issue a warning if the `$env:VISUAL` / `$env:EDITOR` value is invalid. Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#4004 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 25, 2024
Don't colorize nested tokens when the parent token has the CommandName TokenFlag Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3994 · Opened Apr 12, 2024
Failed to call `GetHistoryItems` Open

Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3948 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 16, 2024
Exception when deleting invalid command retained from ValidateAndAcceptLine in Vi Mode Open

Issue-Bug Needs-More Investigation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3919 · Opened Jan 14, 2024
PowerShell on osx - how to force to be completely monochrome Open

Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3918 · 19 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 13, 2024
Expose the number of items shown in command completion list (ListViewMaxHeight) as a $PS variable to make it changable from UI. Open

Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3892 · 1 comment · 6 reactions · Opened Dec 8, 2023
Opt-in Mode for prediction results Open

Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3887 · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 28, 2023
Using an emoji as the prompt text parse error replacement causes glitchy text to remain in the text buffer Open

In-PR Needs-Triage :mag:

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3857 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 3, 2023
Colour selections fail accessibility guidelines Open

Area-Accessibility Needs-Triage :mag:

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3828 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 9, 2023
Update Mutex usage in .NET 9 when the "user-specific named mutex" feature is added Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3797 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 11, 2023
The VI-mode commands f' , f" , t' and t" insert ' or " instead of moving the cursor when running on Windows when using the International Layout (dead keys) Open

Issue-Bug Needs-More Investigation VI-Mode

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3795 · 12 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2023
[vi-mode] Support di' and di" commands Open

In-PR Issue-Enhancement VI-Mode

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3790 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 23, 2023
Rename released module to Microsoft.PowerShell.PSReadline for next major version Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3787 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 21, 2023
Ctrl + A on code in maximized window causes Exception Open

Area-Stability Needs-More Investigation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3750 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 21, 2023
ViMode: Yanking until given character Open

Issue-Enhancement VI-Mode

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3735 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2023
Unexpected backslash with OSC 9;9 prompt Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3719 · 10 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2023
Allow accepting suggestion with the EndOfLine key (End) if cursor is at the end of line Open

Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3705 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 3, 2023
Set `DefaultTokenColor` to `39m` instead of `37m` Open

Issue-Enhancement

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3702 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened May 30, 2023
sudo su <user> to a user with pwsh as their default shell leads to an exception around PSReadLineHistoryFile Open

Area-Stability Issue-Bug issue-mutex

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3692 · Opened May 18, 2023
Allow a prediction result to label tokens in it specially to indicate additional information for attention Open

Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3690 · 1 comment · Opened May 16, 2023
Add Continuation Prompt Counter Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3713 · 2 comments · Opened May 13, 2023
PSReadLine history search with wildcards Open

Area-HistoryImprovements Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3681 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 10, 2023
Sqlite backed history for advanced capabilities Open

Area-HistoryImprovements Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3673 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · Opened May 6, 2023
The ability to copy part of the output of the previous command to the current command Open

Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3670 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 3, 2023
The `<F4> to view all` message for tooltip rendering needs to be updatable when the <F4> key gets bound differently by user Open

Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3668 · 3 reactions · Opened May 3, 2023
Allow for alternate data sources for the Predictor source Open

Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3660 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 20, 2023
The current cursor is off after window resizing Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3637 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2023
Clarify uses for results of `Get-PSReadLineOptions` Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3601 · Opened Feb 28, 2023
Configurations for the new color/style used in metadata line and warning for the scrollable list view Open

Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage :mag:

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3584 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 17, 2023
Idea: option for delay before rending predictions Open

Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3581 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 15, 2023
`ShowCommandHelp` (F1): improve the UX when multiple matching help topics are presented in a list Open

Area-CommandHelp Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3572 · Opened Feb 6, 2023
`ShowCommandHelp` (F1), with fuzzy input, doesn't consistently find all relevant topics, sometimes display single match in a list instead of opening the topic Open

Area-CommandHelp Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3571 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 6, 2023
`ShowCommandHelp` (F1) doesn't work for `about_*` topics relating to language keywords, specifically, if the "about_" prefix isn't used. Open

Area-CommandHelp Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3570 · Opened Feb 6, 2023
Improve the keyboard navigation options in the paged display provided by `ShowCommandHelp` (F1) Open

Area-CommandHelp Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3561 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 1, 2023

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