How to highlight in rich.prompt.Prompt

I have this highlighter

from rich.console import Console
import rich.prompt
from rich.highlighter import RegexHighlighter
from rich.theme import Theme


class Highlighter(RegexHighlighter):
    base_style = "help."
    highlights = [r"(?P<cmd>!helpb)", r"(?P<cmd2>'|"[w]+"|')"]

theme = Theme({"help.cmd": "bold magenta", "help.cmd2": "bold green"})
console = Console(highlighter=Highlighter(), theme=theme)

If I do something like console.print() it gives the custom highlighting but it dosen’t give custom highlighting for rich.prompt.Prompt.ask()

prompt = rich.prompt.Prompt(console=console)
text = prompt.ask("'Enter text'n")
console.print(text)

How can I get the highlighter for rich.prompt.Prompt.ask()

Answer

Are you expecting the text you enter to be highlighted as you type?

Rich doesn’t have that capability. You might want to look in to prompt_toolkit for that.

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