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A bash inspired readline implementation for PowerShell

19 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2013-11-22 · latest 2022-04-09

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  1. …is to try PSReadLine for more bash-like versions of tab completion and other line editing things: https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine As for common shortcuts, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Get-Alias (and Set-Alias) is a very…
    comment by WorldMaker · 2021-01-20 · in Linux and Powershell
  2. This can get you a part of the way, extracted from my PowerShell profile: ## # PSReadLine, see https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine ## ## behaviour of Tab key autocomplete Set-PSReadlineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function MenuComplete ##…
    comment by diarrhea · 2020-05-26 · in ZSH Aliases
  3. …encounter with PowerShell is going to be missing some critical UX features. Not a great situation. https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine/issues/639 https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/879
    comment by ripley12 · 2020-03-04 · in PowerShell 7.0
  4. …But for those who prefer the other way for some reason, there are projects like PSReadLine: https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine EDIT: Found the previous discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11865516
    comment by jdmichal · 2017-06-05 · in Microsoft leak reveals new Windows 10 Workstation edition for power users
  5. This might be the PS library he's talking about: https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine
    comment by tonerdo · 2017-02-10 · in A GNU-Readline-like library for .NET
  6. Use PSReadLine instead of ISE. https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine ISE has bugs that the CLI doesn't (ex: splats for hashtable arguments used to not work in ISE - I don't know if that is still true, because I gave up using ISE and have…
    comment by aytch · 2017-01-15 · in Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell?
  7. https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine perhaps. Personally I find it nice, but it requires a bunch of tweaking to feel comfortable, but maybe less so to people who are used to readline.
    comment by ygra · 2016-06-08 · in How the Windows Subsystem for Linux Redirects Syscalls
  8. …this MS also tried to improve PowerShell by installing the PSReadLine module by default. Read https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine for instructions on how to make PS a bit more usable.
    comment by arthur2e5 · 2016-05-19 · in A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch
  9. Agreed regarding the default tab completion. You might check out PSReadLine at some point - see https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine . Its goal is to try to emulate readline except in PowerShell (this includes tab completion as well as…
    comment by drmohundro · 2015-08-25 · in In defense of PowerShell
  10. At least a few people want vi-mode in the shell, see https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine/pull/101
    comment by lzybkr · 2015-06-02 · in Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
  11. …mentioned here: https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/issues/detail?id=1... see here as well https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine/issues/197
    comment by kobilutil · 2015-05-03 · in Cmder – Portable console emulator for Windows
  12. Try https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine - included in Windows 10 now.
    comment by lzybkr · 2015-04-29 · in Introducing PackageManagement in Windows 10
  13. > All I really find missing these days is good line-editing Probably familiar enough for bash people: https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine > and a half-decent terminal emulator in which to run the shell. Not a terminal emulator (although I…
    comment by ygra · 2015-03-12 · in Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without drivers or modification
  14. Not out of the box, but ctrl+v works with https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine
    comment by lzybkr · 2014-09-30 · in Microsoft Announces Windows 10
  15. …of [Console]::WriteLine calls on one hand (unary). [−7½] http://mridgers.github.io/clink/ [𝜋] https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine
    comment by ygra · 2014-05-14 · in Babun – A new Windows shell
  16. You can get bash style completion in PowerShell with https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine .
    comment by lzybkr · 2014-04-04 · in Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
  17. There is even PSReadline - https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine
    comment by manojlds · 2013-12-07 · in Windows PowerShell Tutorial
  18. Conemu with powershell and PSReadline [1] has made things a lot nicer. [1] https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine
    comment by shadowfox · 2013-11-22 · in Node.js Tools for Visual Studio