Michael Klement

PSReadLine offers great flexibility and customizability for editing of user input that is _PowerShell code_. It would be great to offer the same for _general-purpose_, _end user_ prompting, possibly by...

Support restoring a previously retrieved key handler with Set-PSReadlineKeyHandler

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The `[Microsoft.PowerShell.KeyHandler]` instances output by `Get-PSReadlineKeyHandler` can currently not be used to later restore that handler (after temporarily installing a different handler), if the original handler was based on custom...

Windows: $host.UI.RawUI.KeyAvailable has false positives.

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Environment data ---------------- ```powershell PS version: 7.0.0-preview.1 PSReadline version: 2.0.0-beta4 os: 10.0.18362.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) PS file version: 7.0.0.0 BufferWidth: 180 BufferHeight: 9999 ``` Steps to reproduce or exception report -------------------------------------- Note:...

### Prerequisites - [X] Write a descriptive title. ### Description of the new feature/enhancement When you invoke the `ShowParameterHelp` function (bound to Alt+h by default), the parameter description that prints...

`conhost.exe` console windows on Windows: cmdlets, e.g. `Select-String`, do not render VT (ANSI) escape sequences in their for-display output with direct input from native (external) programs

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### Prerequisites - [X] Write a descriptive title. - [X] Make sure you are able to repro it on the [latest released version](https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases) - [X] Search the existing issues. -...

### Summary of the new feature / enhancement An alias sensibly sees the same tab-completions as its target command, but, unfortunately and unexpectedly, only if the alias target is a...

Start-Job -InitializationScript should support $using: variable references too

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Note: * The bug equally affects `Start-ThreadJob`. In the script block passed to the (implied as the 1st positional) `-ScriptBlock` parameter of `Start-Job`, it is possible to reference variables from...

Suggestion: support Bash-style brace expansions

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Bash has an expressive feature called [brace expansion](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Brace-Expansion.html#Brace-Expansion), which elegantly supports generating "Cartesian products" to **generate multiple arguments** from a single expression **based on token lists and ranges**. As an...

Make console windows fully UTF-8 by default on Windows, in line with the behavior on Unix-like platforms - character encoding, code page

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PowerShell Core now commendably defaults to UTF-8 encoding, including when sending strings _to_ _external_ programs, as reflected in `$OutputEncoding`'s default value. However, because the console-window shortcut file / taskbar entry...

Allow user code to stop a pipeline on demand / to terminate upstream cmdlets.

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The ability to stop a pipeline on demand is currently only available _internally_, as used by `Select-Object -First `, for instance. To quote from [this uservoice.com issue](https://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/301869-powershell/suggestions/11087865-enable-users-to-stop-pipeline-making-stopupstreamc): > It is...