"-ShowWindow" support for Get-Help

[mqmashwani]

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This tracks support for the Get-Help cmdlet.

This is a request for enhancing Get-Help via proxy command which adds support for the "-ShowWindow" parameter.

It would be great to have support for hypertext. Ability to launch the default browser for web link would be great. The ability to launch a separate window showing documentation for a referenced command or about_help topic would also be invaluable.

Even better would be a Show-Help command which implements a non-blocking version of Show-Command but just for help.

The greatest would be if the "-Online" switch rendered the online help page in the PowerShell graphical window.

[ghost]

Personally, I prefer -Online opening the help in the default browser.

[yecril71pl]

Personally, I prefer -Online opening the help in the default browser.

-Online does not work for about_*.

[yecril71pl]

1. Please make sure the new help window has a paging margin defined.
2. I also assume that this issue is about implementing the functionality consistently on all supported systems. Which probably means that calling this functionality in a remote context should result in a document that can be downloaded to be displayed on the client system using an appropriate viewer.
3. Currently GET-HELP HELP | % ALERTSET | % ALERT | MEASURE | % COUNT | SHOULD -BE 11 but GET-HELP HELP -S displays only the 1st of them. Similarly, GET-HELP HELP | % PARAMETERS | % PARAMETER | ? NAME -EQ 'Name' | % DESCRIPTION | % TEXT | MEASURE | % COUNT | SHOULD -BE 6.

[SteveL-MSFT]

No longer relevant as we're focusing on console gui tools only