Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell?

Re:Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell? by aytch on Sunday January 15, 2017 @02:44PM (#13405948)

Use PSReadLine instead of ISE.https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine

ISE has bugs that the CLI doesn't (ex: splats for hashtable arguments used to not work in ISE - I don't know if that is still true, because I gave up using ISE and have only used the CLI for the last 2-3 years).

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Re:Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell? by Arnavion on Sunday January 15, 2017 @03:03PM (#13406054)

And if you use PS 5.0 (not the default for Win 7/8/8.1 but downloadable as WMF 5.0) it has PSReadLine by default.

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Re:Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell? by agumonkey on Sunday January 15, 2017 @09:15PM (#13407826)

As an emacs user this is quite a pleasing news.

    Import-Module PSReadLine
    Set-PSReadlineOption -EditMode Emacs
    ### profit

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Re:Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell? by YeGoblynQueenne on Monday January 16, 2017 @05:46AM (#13409285)

Mnyeah, dunno. I tried the Vi mode, but right off the bat I missed the ability to hit ESC to clear the current input. So much easier than doing ^d$

I don't know about Emacs bindings, but I've tried vim bindings in all sorts of things outside vim, browsers, IDEs, other editors... somehow they never made sense outside of vim.

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Re:Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell? by mondoshawan on Monday January 16, 2017 @08:05AM (#13409705)

Awesome nugget of info! Does this work in v5?

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Re:Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell? by agumonkey on Monday January 16, 2017 @10:29AM (#13410456)

I believe so, the PSReadLine module has been included in PS since v3 IIRC

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Re:Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell? by gargravarr on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:07PM (#13411711)

Many thanks, a colleague sent me Clink for CMD, but I noticed it didn't apply to PoSh. Ths is what I needed.

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