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Support rendering the tooltip in PSReadLine list view

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Description of the new feature/enhancement

Today, the PredictiveSuggestion type has the Tooltip property, but PSReadLine doesn’t use it in its rendering. For completeness, it should render the tooltip, and ideally the tooltips should be displayed in a popup terminal UI window when the user moves the focus to an item in the list, in the form similar to this: https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl#c-repl

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Created 6 months ago
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Comments:8 (5 by maintainers)

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daxian-dbwcommented, May 2, 2023

Close via #3667

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daxian-dbwcommented, Apr 17, 2023

@StevenBucher98 I like this idea. It’s ideal to use a popup window for tooltips because tooltips may be arbitrary multiple line text, but admittedly, it will be hard to support popup window in PSReadLine without significant changes and re-design.

I think I can quickly implement this and see how it works. BTW, the ShowToolTips is for menu completion only, but we can make it control the list view tooltips too.

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