Re:Ask HN: Feature requests? (Any Microsoft-owned product)
by grassmudhorse on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:13PM
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>You can type anything in the terminal, and it displays all the matching commands (with help snippets) in real-time
Like when you start typing something and press tab for autocomplete options (on a Mac at the moment but PowerShell does this too IIRC)?
> Then, if you type a command, it displays its help (snippets around the words after the command).
If I understood correctly: I'm imagining something similar to many code editors when you type `someFunction(` a popup appears with the arguments, their types, and a docstring if the function has one.
Like when you start typing something and press tab for autocomplete options (on a Mac at the moment but PowerShell does this too IIRC)?
> Then, if you type a command, it displays its help (snippets around the words after the command).
If I understood correctly: I'm imagining something similar to many code editors when you type `someFunction(` a popup appears with the arguments, their types, and a docstring if the function has one.