Re: [MSH] Command completion character

"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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