Colorized Prompts using Write-Host don't work as expected

[jhclark]

When using Write-Host to colorize the prompt (the only known method of colorizing the prompt in powershell), the prompt gets clobbered. This makes PSReadLine less able to emulate the goodness of bash and friends.

Possible hack: Allow a variable called $PromptLength (which the Prompt function is required to update) to communicate to PSReadline where the cursor position should be.

More principled fixes may also be possible.

[lzybkr]

My prompt uses many colors and multiple lines w/o any problems.

You'll have to share your prompt function and repro steps (which I'm guessing is just to use bash style completion where the completion is ambiguous, but if not, let me know.)

[jhclark]

Issue was with my box. I had a previous version of PSReadLine installed, which had this issue. psget silently kept the old version.

After removing the old version of PSReadLine and installing the current version this issue was resolved.

Thanks for the quick response! And nice package. :)