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PowerShell colors weird after update to 1.22.2408.23002 (preview) #17854
Description
I have changed nothing here except for installing the latest WT builds, WindowsTerminal 1.21.2408.23001 and WindowsTerminal 1.22.2408.23002 (preview). The following is new behavior. It only happens in the 1.22 preview (not in 1.21 or in previous releases of any kind).
Whenever text on a command line in progress is erased (backspace, Esc, when scrolling through the history) the background color is replaced by black.
Before pressing Esc:
After pressing Esc:
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zadjii-msft commentedon Sep 3, 2024
Which version of PowerShell are you using?
How do you have your prompt customized/?
vefatica commentedon Sep 3, 2024
It's the built-in one called "PowerShell" (not PWSH); I'm on Windows 10.
In the user environment I have
prompt=$e]9;9;"$P"$e\$e[91m$p$g$s$e[0mlhecker commentedon Sep 4, 2024
This is an intentional regression we introduced to make many other major improvements possible, including sixels. It was removed in #17666. You can fix the issue by running
Install-Module PSReadLineand restarting all of your PowerShell tabs (it may be necessary to add a-Forceparameter if it was already installed).The issue happens because Windows 10 ships with PSReadLine that contains a bug where the attributes are incorrect. The issue was fixed in the following PR which ships with Windows 11: PowerShell/PSReadLine#1626
vefatica commentedon Sep 4, 2024
Thanks for the info. It's no big deal to me. I'm no fan of PowerShell (in any form) and I do have an up-to-date (?) PWSH which does not exhibit the behavior in question. If I hide WT's "PowerShell" profile, I won't be tempted to run the old one.
lhecker commentedon Sep 4, 2024
I've updated my comment with relevant links. I'll close this issue for now since I broke it intentionally (see #17666).
(Side note: It can theoretically be fixed by adding a new
InjectionTypebut I don't think we should, because these injections go against the fundamental concept of VT passthrough.)