UI width, possibly word wrap, in PowerShell Integrated console is causing an input error while debugging

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Summary

I have a PowerShell script that prompts a user input via Read-Host command. I reduced the width of the PowerShell integrated console terminal just right at the edge of the prompt and it returns error. however, by widening the UI width fixes the issue.

Please see below for the error:

Do you also want to generate FULL PERMS html reports from the Delegation dataset? (y/n):y (<-- my input would sit very edge of the terminal UI) Read-Host Prompt failed, check inner exception for details At \execweb\Toolbox\frhwang\0NetworkRepo\ExecMailboxAudit-onPrem\Start-ESSMailboxAudit. ps1:71 char:18

• … nSection5 = Read-Host -Prompt "Do you also want to generate FULL PERM …

•             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  

  • CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (😃 [Read-Host], Exception
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Exception,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ReadHostCo mmand

PowerShell Version

$PSVersionTable


Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      5.1.19041.1237
PSEdition                      Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion                   10.0.19041.1237
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

Visual Studio Code Version

code --version
1.60.2
7f6ab5485bbc008386c4386d08766667e155244e
x64

Extension Version

code --list-extensions --show-versions | Select-String powershell

ms-vscode.powershell@2021.9.2

Steps to Reproduce

1. while in debugging, invoke a read-host prompt with some prompt sentence and have the input cursor sit at the very last line of the available width of the terminal. (if cursor warp to the next line, invoke it again)
2. type something as an input. it will trigger the read-host prompt failed error.
3. you can immediately remedy this by widening the UI or shortening it for the prompt to warp to the next line.

I can reproduce this at will. please contact me if you have a hard time reproducing it.

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Logs

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[rjmholt]

Yeah the following will help us to reproduce the issue:

• The Read-Host part of the script with the full prompt
• The result of [console]::windowwidth
• The result of gmo PSReadLine and gcm PSConsoleHostReadLine

[LNGU]

so dragging UI has to happen. I had to drag between 73 and 72 in micro movement to repro this. If there is a value that tracks in smaller increments than whole numbers, please let me know. maybe recording screen would be a better option here.

PS C:\temp\ExecMailboxAudit-onPrem> [console]::windowwidth
73
PS C:\temp\ExecMailboxAudit-onPrem> Read-Host -Prompt "Do you want to generate html reports from the Delegation dataset? (y/n)"                 
Do you want to generate html reports from the Delegation dataset? (y/n):**Read-Host: Prompt failed, check inner exception for details**  (my response y was overwritten by the error msg)            
PS C:\temp\ExecMailboxAudit-onPrem> [console]::windowwidth
72

ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ---------- ----                                ----------------
Script     2.1.0                 PSReadLine                          {Get-PSReadLineKeyHandler, Get-PSReadLineOption, Remove…

CommandType     Name                                               Version    Source    
-----------     ----                                               -------    ------    
Function        PSConsoleHostReadLine                              2.1.0      PSReadLine