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PSReadLine Colors not setting for "Error" (always black text)

See original GitHub issue

VERSION

PowerShell 7.1rc2 (same in version 7.0x)

STEPS to reproduce

Set-PSReadLineOption -Colors @{ "Error" = "Red" }

Set-PSReadLineOption -Colors @{ "Error" = "#AABBCC" }

Set-PSReadLineOption -Colors @{ "Error" = [System.ConsoleColor]::Red }

not changing the color, always leave it black…

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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daxian-dbwcommented, Oct 30, 2020

always leave it black…

@IBIT-ZEE Can you please clarify what is left black?

Note that the ErrorColor is for rendering errors that happen in PSReadLine, not the color setting for the ErrorRecord thrown by a PowerShell command execution. For example, the ErrorPrompt feature in PSReadLine uses this color setting:

It’s also used when there is a problem saving commands to the history file.

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msftbot[bot]commented, Nov 9, 2020

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