weird black background when pressing space in windows legacy powershell

[canh25xp]

Windows Terminal version

1.22.10352.0

Windows build number

10.0.19045.0

Other Software

powershell legacy version 5.1.19041.5369 no Profile.

Steps to reproduce

Open powershell(legacy) in the terminal and press space.

Expected Behavior

No black background should not appear.

Actual Behavior

A black background is appear when ever a space is enter, as shown in the image below.

This only happends with legacy version of powershell.

Using any theme other than pitch black background theme results in this behaviour.

The previous version of windows terminal 1.21.3231.0 does not have this problem.

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• Black background in PowerShell commands #6767 , similarity score: 81%

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[canh25xp]

This issue seam to happens with older release, it got fixed and then now reappear in this version.

[j4james]

@canh25xp I'm afraid the change in color handling is by design. That fix was a temporary hack that has now been removed. The reasoning is explained in PR #17666, but the gist of it is that you need to upgrade PSReadLine, or use a black/white color scheme if that isn't an option.

[carlos-zamora]

Thanks for filing! As j4james said above, this is by design. More info can be found in PR #17666 and the issue it closes. 😊