daviwil
Late-formatting of results
One of my pet-peeves with the current PowerShell shell is that sometimes I'll execute a command and get some results, but the results are formatted in a way that is either too verbose or too limited, so I'll have to re-run the command piped to the appropriate Format-* command. It would be awesome if this shell collected the results in memory (within reason) and allowed the user to re-format those results on the fly, kind of like how Chrome's F12 tools work.
Hmmm, that's an interesting idea. Could even be something facilitated by Editor Services, keeping the last result pre-formatting in a special variable which could be re-evaluated through a different formatter.
Do you have an example of how that works in Chrome's dev tools that I could take a look at?
It's not really exactly the same thing, but I can enter a variable in the REPL, and then dig into the details of the variable after outputting to the shell. I want something similar for PowerShell.
(picture from Edge F12 instead)
Ahhh! Yeah, a structured output display would be helpful and definitely in the scope of what I'm trying to accomplish