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Right Arrow Complete failure, environment hang

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start with the AcceptSuggestion and ForwardChar entry points named in the exception report. Reproduce the failure in a new Windows Terminal window while completing a cd path with RightArrow, then trace the reported Substring bounds error. Done means path completion no longer hangs or crashes in this scenario.

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Exception report
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### Environment
PSReadLine: 2.3.6+d2e770f93b7a53d8660a6402eb29d1ae1c35e767
PowerShell: 7.5.3
OS: Microsoft Windows 10.0.26100
BufferWidth: 120
BufferHeight: 30

Last 29 Keys:

 c o d e Spacebar Backspace Backspace Backspace Backspace Backspace c d Spacebar r e p o Tab RightArrow RightArrow RightArrow RightArrow RightArrow RightArrow Tab RightArrow RightArrow RightArrow RightArrow

### Exception

System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: startIndex cannot be larger than length of string. (Parameter 'startIndex')
   at System.String.ThrowSubstringArgumentOutOfRange(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length)
   at System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex)
   at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.AcceptSuggestion(Nullable`1 key, Object arg)
   at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.ForwardChar(Nullable`1 key, Object arg)
   at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.ProcessOneKey(PSKeyInfo key, Dictionary`2 dispatchTable, Boolean ignoreIfNoAction, Object arg)
   at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.InputLoop()
   at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.ReadLine(Runspace runspace, EngineIntrinsics engineIntrinsics, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Nullable`1 lastRunStatus)
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Environment data
PS Version: 7.5.3
PS HostName: ConsoleHost (Windows Terminal)
PSReadLine Version: 2.3.6
PSReadLine EditMode: Windows
OS: 10.0.26100.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
BufferWidth: 142
BufferHeight: 60
Steps to reproduce

Open new windows terminal
(was planning to cd into my repo and start vs code)
cd (was pressing right arrow to complete the path that was presented)
(system hang and crash report issued)

Expected behavior

Select right arrow and cd into the path.

Actual behavior

crash typed the path from memory

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