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                                            Michael Klement

Need straightforward way to honor the caller's preference-variable values / inherited common parameters in functions defined in script modules

@dlwyatt: Amen to that. I was in the middle of composing the following: The point is that if _compiled_ cmdlets respect preference variables set in the caller's scope, it's reasonable...

Need straightforward way to honor the caller's preference-variable values / inherited common parameters in functions defined in script modules

> Keep in mind one big difference between binary cmdlets and functions - binary cmdlets are rarely implemented in terms of PowerShell functions or other cmdlets. Users needing to be...

Need straightforward way to honor the caller's preference-variable values / inherited common parameters in functions defined in script modules

> Users of a command aren't aware of the implementation and do have the expectation of reasonable output. No argument there. And let's not forget predictable behavior, which brings us...

Need straightforward way to honor the caller's preference-variable values / inherited common parameters in functions defined in script modules

> Also note that the equivalence of -ErrorAction Stop and setting the preference variable could be thought of as an implementation detail and is considered a bug by some people...

Need straightforward way to honor the caller's preference-variable values / inherited common parameters in functions defined in script modules

The recent #6556 is a more pernicious manifestation of the problem discussed here: Because CDXML-based cmdlets are seemingly _advanced functions_ rather than binary cmdlets, the **functions in the `NetSecurity` module...

Need straightforward way to honor the caller's preference-variable values / inherited common parameters in functions defined in script modules

#6342 is a similar manifestation of the problem, in the context of `Expand-Archive`.

`ShowCommandHelp` and `ShowParameterHelp` should support incomplete parameter names (prefixes)

@StevenBucher98: PSReadLine has control over how how it invokes `Get-Help`, and the fact that it uses `Get-Help` at all is an _implementation detail_. It should exercise that control in order...

`Select-String`: automatic prompt for values for the mandatory `-Pattern` parameter is broken with pipeline input

I haven't looked at other cmdlets, but here's proof that it works in principle: ```powershell function foo { param([Parameter(Mandatory)] [string[]] $Pattern, [Parameter(ValueFromPipeLine)] $InputObject) process { [pscustomobject] @{ Pattern = $Pattern;...

The web cmdlets (`Invoke-WebRequest` and `Invoke-RestMethod`) shouldn't use a user-agent string that suggests an interactive browser; instead, they should suggest a download utility such as `curl`

An example is the following URL (taken from the linked Stack Overflow post): https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost-binaries/1.74.0/boost_1_74_0-msvc-14.2-64.exe is a _direct download_ when you target it with `curl`, but with the web cmdlets, due...

The web cmdlets (`Invoke-WebRequest` and `Invoke-RestMethod`) shouldn't use a user-agent string that suggests an interactive browser; instead, they should suggest a download utility such as `curl`

Indeed: what was download was an _HTML page_, not an `.exe` file, which you can easily verify by opening the output file in a text editor. The true file size...