Consider allowing use of PSConsoleHostReadLine for general-purpose prompting #881
Description
PSReadLine offers great flexibility and customizability for editing of user input that is PowerShell code.
It would be great to offer the same for general-purpose, end user prompting, possibly by adding parameters to the PSConsoleHostReadLine function, notably by allowing opt-out of the following features:
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parsing the input as PowerShell code, notably to prevent accidental continuation of the prompt on the next line, if the input is a syntactically incomplete PowerShell statement.
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(and therefore) syntax coloring
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adding the submitted input to the command history.
A real-life use case is this Stack Overflow question, which asks for implementing custom key bindings in a prompt presented to the end user.
Scripts could implement such and more sophisticated customizations in order to enhance the end-user input experience, including tab-completion.
Additionally, it would make sense for the Read-Host cmdlet to use this enhanced PSConsoleHostReadLine function either by default or on request.
Environment data
PSReadline version: 2.0.0-beta3