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jasonmarcher
Tab expansion module for PowerShell. Handles more content and provides a new, optional interface.
Support for CommandName and FormatTypeName. Also improve support for -Module.
I know PowerTab has a whole bunch of magical characters that cause it to tab complete differently, but I don't know (or can't remember) what they all are. I think...
Mostly the parameters Breakpoint, Command, and Line.
Right now variable expansion is done with "$variable\". But it would be nice to tab expand paths with variables in them and not expand the variables.
At least respond to CTRL-C.
PowerTab doesn't really understand lists that don't have spaces. This doesn't work right: ``` Get-Command -CommandType Alias,F ``` This does: ``` Get-Command -CommandType Alias, F ```
The context parser has another issue with lists: ``` Remove-PSBreakpoint (Get-PSBreakPoint -Id 2), ```
This will be tricky because we have to figure out what object will be sent to the Format cmdlet.
It might be useful to have a handler for DateTime typed parameters. Either show a date picker or a slick in-console-buffer interface (could be a lot of work though).
I had a crazy idea. It might be nice to be able to see parameters grouped by parameter set as a way to show usage information while tab expanding parameter...
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Tab expansion module for PowerShell. Handles more content and provides a new, optional interface.