Provide API allowing extensions to provide enhanced command palettes

[d-akara]

I would like to build an extensions to provide many enhancements to a command palette interface.

The capabilities I would like to provide to VSCode can be viewed at Commander, a next-gen command palette for Eclipse

Some initial thoughts on required API capabilities:

• Capture keyboard input events from input field and handle in extension
• Change list content on handling of input events
• Add columns to list content
• Handle some level of rendering of content
  • Provide indication of markers to be applied on a row
  • Provide character indices or information for highlighting matched characters

[egamma]

@dakaraphi it is unlikely that we would expose API for all the feature requests you mentioned above. So this would not be done as an extensions but in a Pull Request against VS Code. Since this would be a larger Pull Request that requires ongoing discussion.

[mjbvz]

#49340 tracks a discussion of an improved input API. Please follow up there

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