Re: [MSH] Command completion character

Note, cmdlet auto-complete is in V1. You have to type the verb and "-" to
get it though. So "get-i<tab>" would get you "get-item".

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"Keith Hill" <r_keith_hill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Bruce Payette [MSFT]" <brucepay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> The editing features that msh and cmd.exe both use are implemented by the
>> console subsystem not the user process. Tab-completion uses a feature in
>> the Console API where you can specify a secondary line-complete
>> character. When we get a line back, we look at the line-complete
>> character and figure out what to do from there. We don't currently
>> provide a way to specify anything other than tab for this character
>> unfortunately. All of the other changes suggested require writing our own
>> command-line editor. This didn't make the cut for V1 but is high on the
>> list for V2.
>
> I'm looking forward to V2 and features like cmdlet auto-complete and
> cmdlet and parameter intellisense. Color syntaxing would also be very
> helpful to let me know when I'm in command vs expression mode and let me
> know what token are keywords and operators. Auto-indenting of code typed
> at the command line (assuming multiple lines) would be nice. Finally a
> good script editor with all these features would rock.
>
> --
> Keith
>
>


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