Colors

[vors]

Steps to reproduce

• Open terminal in OS X, with "Basic" (default) color schema.
• Run powershell
• run throw "foo"

Expected behavior

Colors look ok

Actual behavior

Colors don't look ok

Environment data

v0.4.0

cc @nanalakshmanan

[vors]

It's not only OS X actually.

This is from Ubuntu Server 14.04, terminal emulator with default colors

[vors]

This is unacceptable

[joeyaiello]

There's two issues here:

• There's some non-PSReadline code that's overriding the background color of errors. We may want to remove this code now that PSReadline is the engine for changing colors.
• PSReadline should have proper theme support (with at least light and dark themes, but potentially a host of others).

[twblalock]

I'm able to set some of the colors on Mac OS, but the names of commands as I type them out remain yellow no matter what.

[lzybkr]

This issue was moved to PowerShell/PSReadLine#472

[Oxicode]

+1 Ubuntu

[jszabo98]

The default colors aren't great in osx, especially white on white for numbers and members, yellow for commands, and gray for types and operators. (I'm not a fan of the red error messages in Windows either.)

Btw when I tab complete on set-psreadlineoption or get-psreadlineoption in osx, it pops up twice.

[joeyaiello]

@jszabo98 agreed on all fronts. The tab-completion bug is known too (I think it's somewhere in the PSReadline repo)

[milindsaraswala]

I am late to the party but I found the article which make your mac terminal window same like windows PowerShell. By Setting Profile. Please follow this below article
https://info.sapien.com/index.php/quickguides/setting-up-powershell-on-your-mac

[casperghst42]

We are not 4 years down the line, and there has been absolutely no update. It is interesting as Microsoft are now trying the "Run Everywhere" idea, but they are failing to make it a nice experience.

[jszabo98]

My current setup. I just did this on a new mac.

set-psreadlineoption -colors @{ 
  command            = 'darkyellow'
  number             = 'black'
  member             = 'black'
  operator           = 'black'
  type               = 'black'
  variable           = 'darkgreen'
  parameter          = 'darkgreen'
  continuationprompt = 'black'
  default            = 'black'
}

$host.PrivateData.VerboseForegroundColor = 'DarkYellow'
$host.PrivateData.WarningForegroundColor = 'DarkYellow'
$host.PrivateData.DebugForegroundColor = 'DarkYellow'
$host.PrivateData.ProgressForegroundColor = 'DarkYellow'

[casperghst42]

My current setup. I just did this on a new mac.

set-psreadlineoption -colors @{ 
  command            = 'darkyellow'
  number             = 'black'
  member             = 'black'
  operator           = 'black'
  type               = 'black'
  variable           = 'darkgreen'
  parameter          = 'darkgreen'
  continuationprompt = 'black'
  default            = 'black'
}

$host.PrivateData.VerboseForegroundColor = 'DarkYellow'
$host.PrivateData.WarningForegroundColor = 'DarkYellow'
$host.PrivateData.DebugForegroundColor = 'DarkYellow'
$host.PrivateData.ProgressForegroundColor = 'DarkYellow'

Thanks, very helpful.