Styling of completion items

[indy-independence]

Is there a way to style completion items in the prompt with color/underline etc? In my example I want to complete filenames using builtin path_complete() and then depending on the status of the file I want to display the filename with color/underline. I tried like this:

return self.color_paths(self.path_complete(text, line, begidx, endidx))

    def color_paths(self, completions: list[str]) -> list[str]:
        if len(completions) == 1:
            return [cmd2.ansi.style(f"{completions[0]}", fg=cmd2.Fg.GREEN)]
        return completions

and then the idea was to remove the formatting characters with precommand or something like that.

However prompt just shows up as: show ^[[32mdevices/d1/interfaces.yml^[[39m

[kmvanbrunt]

Because of limitations with GNU readline, you can't include ANSI escape sequences in a tab completion match.

cmd2 does provide a method to add text styles to completion hints, but not the final match that displays on the command line.

For instance, in the following example, you could color the hints (cmd2.egg-info/ cmd2.png), but not the single match on the command line.