PowerShell/PSReadLine

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A bash inspired readline implementation for PowerShell

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Open beginner issues: 2
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

`ShowCommandHelp` and `ShowParameterHelp` should support incomplete parameter names (prefixes) Open

Area-CommandHelp Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3560 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 1, 2023
Cannot register key handlers for the same key with different modifiers Open

Area-KeyHandlers Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3555 · 9 comments · Opened Jan 29, 2023
Update the command prediction interface when the right time comes Open

Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3548 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 23, 2023
Enable prompt to show prediction Open

Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3525 · 1 comment · 2 assignees · Opened Dec 27, 2022
PSReadLine Keyhandlers should have a reset to default Open

Area-KeyHandlers Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3518 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 19, 2022
Remove cmdlet/cmd that error from history to reduce confusion Open

Area-HistoryImprovements Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3517 · 1 comment · 10 reactions · Opened Dec 19, 2022
Setting a key handler for 'Ctrl+Alt+?' sets the same key handler for '?' Open

Area-KeyHandlers Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3508 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 9, 2022
Make history prediction location aware Open

Area-HistoryImprovements Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3472 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 6, 2022
ShowParameterHelp: Remove the unnecessary "DESC: " prefix from the parameter description Open

Area-CommandHelp Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 68/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3470 · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 4, 2022
Multi-line text allows parts of Line 2 to bleed into Line 4 (if line 4 length is shorter than line 2 length) Open

Needs-Triage :mag:

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3447 · 12 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 8, 2022
Add different color for correct/incorrect command Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3439 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 19, 2022
Allow registering an esc sequence to execute a PS function Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3430 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 9, 2022
KeyHandler to toggle through predictors sources Open

Area-KeyHandlers Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3383 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 16, 2022
Make predictions not show invalid paths Open

Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement Needs-Attention :wave:

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3380 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 15, 2022
Using a chord to insert emoji changes all emoji on the line to "??" Open

Issue-Emoji

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3371 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 6, 2022
Prediction `NextSuggestion` or similar binding that also works with inline predictions Open

Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3362 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 29, 2022
Selection styling isn't cleared after running command Open

Issue-Bug Needs-Triage :mag:

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3758 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 16, 2022
Consider enhance the history searching in PSReadLine to use fuzzy-match algorithm as in fzf Open

Area-HistoryImprovements Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3339 · 2 comments · 12 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 6, 2022
List completion view and ShowParameterHelp causes display issues Open

Area-Predictors Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3319 · 2 reactions · Opened May 18, 2022
Fish like abbreviations for auto expansion of aliases of command plus args Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3279 · 9 reactions · Opened Apr 18, 2022
powershell went wrong, pls help. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3227 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 1, 2022
Make the ViEditVisually function more flexible by allowing $env:VISUAL / $env:EDITOR to contain an executable name *with options* Open

In-PR Issue-Enhancement Needs-Triage :mag:

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#3214 · 6 reactions · Opened Feb 18, 2022
PowerShell doesn't print a new line on exit Open

Needs-Triage :mag:

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#5092 · 10 comments · Opened Nov 14, 2021
ListView in Predictive IntelliSense should order predictors by last accepted Open

Area-Predictors Issue-Enhancement Issue-Triaged

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2922 · 2 comments · 5 reactions · 2 assignees · Opened Oct 14, 2021
InvokePrompt breaks with a prompt that prints unicode characters Open

Area-Stability Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2866 · 9 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 17, 2021
Cyrillic breaks CTRL+ combos Open

In-PR Issue-KeyboardLayout Needs-Attention :wave:

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2865 · 16 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Sep 17, 2021
MenuComplete on localized versions doesn't work as expected with many suggestions Open

Issue-Bug Issue-Usability

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2854 · Opened Sep 14, 2021
Please make backward and forward search slash agnostic, or add an option to do so Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2696 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 22, 2021
Simultaneous pwsh instance start Mutex.CreateMutexCore IOException race condition Open

Issue-Bug issue-mutex Needs-More Investigation

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2658 · 20 comments · Opened Jul 8, 2021
Dynamic help should show .NET API overloads Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2615 · Opened Jun 24, 2021
Unexpected behavior with [Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine]::SelectForwardChar() Open

Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2558 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 9, 2021
Accessibility mode for PSReadLine Open

Area-Accessibility Issue-Enhancement

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2504 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 28, 2021
Faied to input emoji in windows terminal (and vscode) Open

Issue-Bug Issue-Emoji

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2358 · 10 comments · 11 reactions · Opened Apr 10, 2021
Instead of the "Display all <n> possibilities (y/n)" prompt, make MenuComplete use in-place paging to show completions that exceed the -CompletionQuery threshold Open

Issue-Enhancement Issue-Triaged

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2306 · 9 reactions · Opened Mar 15, 2021
Dynamic Help Custom Pager Support Open

Issue-Enhancement Issue-Triaged

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2271 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 5, 2021
Dynamic Help Should have PSReadlineOption to open in either browser or "-ShowWindow" in addition to pager Open

Issue-Enhancement Issue-Triaged

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2270 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 5, 2021
Coloring existing and non-existing commands Open

Issue-Enhancement Issue-Triaged Not-Planned

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2269 · 2 comments · 15 reactions · Opened Mar 5, 2021
Command lines that end with a backtick cause history recall issues Open

Issue-Bug Not-Planned

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2244 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 24, 2021
ShowParamterHelp is bound to Alt+h by default which doesn't work on macOS Open

Area-KeyHandlers Issue-KeyboardLayout OS-macOS

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2242 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 23, 2021
Some keys on Japanese layout keyboards are incorrectly interpreted as @ Open

Area-Accessibility Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2206 · 12 comments · 14 reactions · Opened Feb 10, 2021
Consider merging ForwardDeleteLine and DeleteToEnd Open

Issue-Enhancement Issue-Triaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2144 · Opened Jan 19, 2021
Consider merging multiple implementations of MoveToLine and ViMoveToLine Open

Issue-Enhancement Issue-Triaged

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2049 · Opened Dec 17, 2020
Consider merging MoveToEndOfLine and EndOfLine methods. Open

Issue-Enhancement Issue-Triaged

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2048 · Opened Dec 17, 2020
'Alt' prints '@' when it's remapped to an unassigned key code (vkE8 or vkFF) Open

Needs-Attention :wave: Needs-Triage :mag:

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#2036 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 9, 2020
Add Completer Source to Inline similar to ListView Open

Issue-Enhancement Not-Planned

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#1945 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 11, 2020
use ListView also for (Reverse)SearchHistory (Ctrl+r) Open

Issue-Enhancement Not-Planned

PowerShell/PSReadLine#1943 · 1 comment · 6 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 10, 2020
Investigate perf gain by using the .NET char comparison pattern Open

Issue-Enhancement Not-Planned

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#1915 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2020
GPO support for HistorySaveStyle & set default HistorySaveStyle to SaveNothing Open

Issue-Enhancement Not-Planned

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

PowerShell/PSReadLine#1907 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 28, 2020
A more intelligent & useful history file & way to query it Open

Area-HistoryImprovements Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

PowerShell/PSReadLine#1886 · 14 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 16, 2020
Make completer menus reusable Open

Issue-Enhancement Not-Planned

PowerShell/PSReadLine#1818 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 17, 2020

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