Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic

Re:Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic by Ididntdothis on Friday March 13, 2020 @08:58PM (#22572194)

Verb-first was also a bad choice. When I type “get” I am getting thousands of suggestions which makes autocompletion pretty useless. There is also no way to find all cmdlets that deal with active directory. It would be much better if I could type “AD” first and then get all cmdlets that deal with active directory.

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Re:Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic by InvaderFizz on Friday March 13, 2020 @09:12PM (#22572305)

Try:

  man *-AD*

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Re:Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic by ygra on Sunday March 15, 2020 @02:42AM (#22581809)

You want Get-Command here, usually, not Get-Help.

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Re:Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic by kuzimoto on Friday March 13, 2020 @09:39PM (#22572441)

I don't think it's that bad. Better than bash where every command has is either something archaic or just what whoever wrote it wanted it to be. It better resembles English than the other way around. Plus you can use "get-command "something`" which gives you everything that contains that string, or search for a certain provider for all commands related to a specific thing.

Autocompletion still works, just type first letter or two after get and filter most stuff out.

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