Multiple foreground colors in PowerShell in one command

Question

I want to output many different foreground colors with one statement.

PS C:\\> Write-Host \"Red\" -ForegroundColor Red
Red

This output i

Answer 1

If you are in my situation, I've found a plain vanilla way from microsoft docs to set console mode. So here is an easy way to start and end 256 colors ansi console support in both cmd and powershell:

// https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/setconsolemode
#include <Windows.h>
#include <iostream>
struct  console_data {
    HANDLE hstdin;
    DWORD  mode;

    DWORD start()
    {
        hstdin = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
        GetConsoleMode(hstdin, &mode);
        if (!SetConsoleMode(hstdin, mode | ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING)) {
            DWORD E = GetLastError();
            std::cout << " Error #" << E << "in:"  __FUNCTION__ "\n";
            return GetLastError();
        }
        std::cout << "\033[1;14mReady.\e[0m\n";
        return 0;
    }

    void end()
    {
        SetConsoleMode(hstdin, mode);
    }
    ~console_data() {
        end();
    }
    //...
}RTConsole;

//...
int main()
{
   //... 
   RTConsole.start();
   std::cout << "\033[38;5;192m Should be 'Orange'\n";
   RTConsole.end();
   return 0;
}

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/setconsolemode

Note: I did not find how to get 256 colors support into VS Code's poswershell extension.