Completion candidates color

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I changed to a lighter color theme and noticed that the color of TAB completion candidates is illegible. How can I change the completion colors? I looked at `get-psReadLineOption`, but did not find completion related color names.

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and I would like to change the green background color of directories and the blue background color of the selected completion candidate.

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I changed the color in Windows Terminal, but am still interested in PowerShell and Windows Terminal color interaction in this case.

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on mine when I run Get-PSReadLineOption it looks to me like the SelectionColor property is the one that correlates with that color.

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quickly checked the docs on changing colors and ran this

set-psreadlineoption -Colors @{"SelectionColor"="`e[36m"}

which produced an error saying I couldn’t change “SelectionColor”. I then went in to Windows Terminal’s settings and modified the “White” color in my appearance section and that effectively changed the color of highlighted text.

So, I think you found the solution. PSReadline can control some colors, but your terminal’s color scheme is going to have more effect on everything.

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Thanks for checking back and confirming!

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