{"id":74981,"date":"2015-12-19T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/12\/19\/powertip-use-powershell-to-change-colors-in-psreadline-module\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:20:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:20:37","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-change-colors-in-psreadline-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-change-colors-in-psreadline-module\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Change Colors in PSReadline Module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell access color options in the PSReadline module.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\">&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to alter the colors in the PSReadline module?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\">&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Set-PSReadlineOption<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to alter pretty much any item. <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;For example, to provide a white foreground for error messages, use:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">Set-PSReadlineOption &ndash;ErrorForegroundColor White<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/09\/dr_scripto-102x150.gif\" alt=\" \"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell access color options in the PSReadline module. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to alter the colors in the PSReadline module? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Set-PSReadlineOption&nbsp;cmdlet to alter pretty much any item. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;For example, to provide a white foreground for error messages, use: Set-PSReadlineOption &ndash;ErrorForegroundColor White<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-74981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell access color options in the PSReadline module. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to alter the colors in the PSReadline module? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Set-PSReadlineOption&nbsp;cmdlet to alter pretty much any item. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;For example, to provide a white foreground for error messages, use: Set-PSReadlineOption &ndash;ErrorForegroundColor White<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}