Questions tagged [tabexpansion]
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Example showing how to override TabExpansion2 in Windows PowerShell 3.0
Does anyone have an example showing how to override the TabExpansion2 function in Windows PowerShell 3.0? I know how to override the old TabExpansion function, but I want to provide a list of items for the intellisense in PowerShell ISE. I looked…
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Use different values of expandtabs() in the same string - Python
How can we define several tab lengths in a python string? For example, we want to print the keys, value types and values of a dict nicely aligned (with varying sizes of keys and types):
my_dict = {
"short_key": 4,
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Can I affect quoting in a Powershell tab expansion function?
Powershell tab expansion functions take 2 parameters, the line so far, and the "current word". The function should return a replacement for the current word.
From experiment, it seems to me that the current word is passed to the function without any…
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PowerShell - Parameter Value Tab Expansion for Enum types
Is it possible to implement parameter value tab expansion for enum parameter types?
Creating a binary cmdlet with parameter definition:
[Parameter]
public SomeEnum Type {get;set;}
Is there some way to type:
Add-MyThing -Type S
To get:…
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ZSH directory expansion ('..' into '../')
I've recently started to learn and use ZSH.
The problem I'm facing is that ZSH won't auto-expand '..' in commands (like 'cd', 'cp' and so on) into '../'. Bash does this.
This wouldn't be such an big issue if I were using keyboard with US-layout...…
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Tab completion for array not shows after first selection
This is a script for VS PowerShell.
function global:Add-Shape { param([string]$Shape, [string[]]$Colors)
Write-Host "Shape Name:$Shape"
foreach ($i in $Colors) {
Write-Host "Color Name:$i"
}
}
Register-TabExpansion 'Add-Shape'…
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Formatting tab argument completion powershell
I'm using TabExpansion2 in PowerShell 3 and when I tab to complete an argument it brings up the string I want but wrapped in syntax I don't want.
For instance when I hit tab after -binName:
Use-Bin -binName @{Name=5.0}
what I need is:
Use-Bin…
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