visualize/tab-completion with forward slash as separator on Windows

Description of the new feature/enhancement

I’m beginning user in PSREadLine and would like to use more a Unix-like behavior inside PowerShell on Windows. Two things come to my mind to extends PSReadLine:

1. Visualize slash as separator. For instance, I would like to configure PSReadLine to show the local directory indication as
   PS /Users/alan> instead of PS C:\Users\alan>

2. Enable tab-completion using forward slash. Today when using tab-completion the forward slash is converted to slash. For instance, ls /Users/ followed by tab is automatic converted to C:\Users

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

[3N4N]

@jd1378 @alanlivio I looked into the code and there is no way, at least no simple way, to use unix-directory-separator in PSReadLine. There is a place that appends a directory separator, and that’s patchable, but that only changes the last directory separator, not the preceding ones. The preceding separators are decided here:

https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine/blob/9957183ff2eb128a8f9df9e077c22acf21b72fdd/PSReadLine/Completion.cs#L291

CompleteInput is a PowerShell builtin method, unalterable. And the value it returns is of type CommandCompletion, which is readonly, so you can’t even manually edit it after its creation. In other words, there is no simple way to patch PSReadLine so it uses unix directory separator in Windows.

@daxian-dbw could you care to verify my observations?

[daxian-dbw]

Sorry for the late response. @3N4N was right, the completion results for path are returned from the tab completion APIs in PowerShell engine, not generated by PSReadLine. So, the ask should better post in the PowerShell repo.