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Allow having separate MenuComplete selection color for input line and interactive menu

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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by tracing Set-PSReadLineOption -Colors and the MenuComplete rendering paths in the PSReadLine source. Compare how the existing Selection color is applied to the input line and interactive menu. Done means the proposed Selection and CompletionSelection colors can be configured independently, with coverage for both display contexts.

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Description of the new feature/enhancement

If I'm not mistaken, currently we are only able to set one color for both the MenuComplete selection on the input line and the interactive menu like the following:
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But I want to do something like this:
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Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Maybe it would be great to be able to do something like the following:

$colors = @{
    "Selection" = "$([char]0x1b)[38;2;0;0;0;48;2;178;255;102m"  # Black text on green background for selected text in input line
    "CompletionSelection" = "$([char]0x1b)[38;2;255;255;255;48;2;0;0;255m"  # White text on blue background for selected completion in interactive menu
}
Set-PSReadLineOption -Colors $colors
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