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PSReadLine | Windows Terminal | |
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15 | 506 | |
3,534 | 93,467 | |
2.0% | 0.6% | |
7.6 | 9.7 | |
6 days ago | 5 days ago | |
C# | C++ | |
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | MIT License |
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PSReadLine
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Tools to achieve a 10x developer workflow on Windows
sets up PSReadLine: command autocompletion and many other features.
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Wierd behaviour with using 'Dir' as an alias for my own function
Sounds like a bug, you should report it to PSReadLine. I believe PSReadLine and not PowerShell is the one that handles tab completion here, it sounds like it's caching the alias target so still thinks it is completing Get-ChildItem.
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DirectoryPredictor - Plugin module for PSReadLine to actively search the current directory for matching files
I then used PSReadLine's GitHub to understand how they made their own module, shared data with Cmdlets and everything inbetween. Which got me the rest of the day.
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Keyword search through PSReadline command history with '#' operator?
Highly recommend checking out the team’s sample file: https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine/blob/master/PSReadLine/SamplePSReadLineProfile.ps1
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Using PowerShell for non system-administration
I have a hotkey that converts aliases on the command line when I hit alt+% That makes it easier to paste into discord or wherever. Why % ? I'm not sure, that's what what PSReadLine used
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Leveling up Windows Powershell with Oh My Posh
GitHub - PowerShell/PSReadLine: A bash inspired readline implementation for PowerShell
- PSReadline – bash inspired readline implementation for PowerShell
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Hot Reload with Notepad in .NET 6
Bit late, but it's PSReadLine
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New PowerShell Version - v7.2.0-preview.6: [7.2.0-preview.6] - 2021-05-27
Just a bit of a heads up. The PSReadLine 2.2.0 beta 1 and beta 2 do not work with this release so either you can downgrade to PSReadLine 2.1.0 or stay on PowerShell 7.2.0 preview 5. The PSReadLine 2.2.0 beta 3 will solve the issue.
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How to solve "Update-Help: Failed to update Help for the module(s) 'PSReadline, WindowsUpdateProvider' with UI culture(s) {en-US} : One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 404 (The specified blob does not exist.).)." ?
The PSReadline update-help failing is new and should probably have an issue filed on their github, assuming there isn't one already. The failure on "WindowsUpdateProvider" has been around for years, you're missing help for these cmdlets without it
Windows Terminal
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Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company
> convince management of the value
This presupposes that such convincing is even possible. Many, many companies have leadership that are simply terrible at identifying value. If you've never been part of a majority of developers advocating for, if not outright begging for, some huge ROI initiative to get the green light, you are very fortunate.
There are great counterexamples, like Valve, which is known for giving developers an extreme degree of autonomy, and they benefit greatly from that approach. For each Valve, though, there are dozens of companies that manage to succeed despite themselves.
Take Microsoft, for example. One tiny, yet representative, example: the way the Windows Terminal team handled a suggestion from Casey Muratori to take their software from abysmally slow to lightning fast:
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362
A quote from one of the Terminal developers, dismissing the suggestion:
> I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively…
Just how difficult was such an endeavor in actuality? Well, given that Casey implemented his own terminal emulator from scratch and incorporated the functionality he was proposing in a mere weekend... not a whole lot. Relatively minor effort for a huge return on investment. It took Casey explaining the concepts, then providing a working proof of concept, and finally a bunch of backlash online towards the Terminal team to get them to do the right thing for themselves and their users.
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A glimpse into the universe where Windows died with the 1980s
At this point ConHost.exe is open source [0] so it is maybe not a stretch to expect Microsoft to open source CMD.EXE at some point.
Though with PowerShell being cross-platform and already open source, I personally don't think there's enough to gain in some sort of better open source CMD.EXE fork. I'd be interested in being proved wrong on that, but I'm also happy enough with PowerShell these days I'm not in a hurry to return to CMD.EXE.
[0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/src/host
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Windows 11 looks to be getting a key Linux tool added in the future
"Users of Linux and macOS may well be familiar with the sudo command, used regularly in the terminal, and it looks like Windows may finally be getting its own version."
More Linux tools are coming to Windows, especially Windows Server because the tools are good and they make it easier to administer a Windows Server.
They are looking at adding a default TUI text editor (https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440) and now they are adding sudo.
I would not be surprised if systemd or something like it gets ported or reinvented for Windows simply because it makes managing services so nice.
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Overview over Microsoft's developer tools for Windows
GitHub
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On Being Listed as an Artist Whose Work Was Used to Train Midjourney
>We are allowed to view and consume it, to be influenced by it, and under many circumstances even outright copy it.
People keep saying this but it's actually much more complicated, and in many cases you can't view copyrighted content.
An example, MicroSoft employees are not permitted to view or learn from an open source (GPL-2) terminal emulator:
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10462#issuecomm...
Another example is proprietary software that may have it's source available, either intentionally or not. If you view this and then work on something related to it, like WINE for example, you are definitely at risk of being successfully sued.
If you worked at MicroSoft and worked on Windows, you would not be able to participate in WINE development at all without violating copyright.
If you viewed leaked Windows source code you also would not be able to participate in WINE development.
An interesting question that I have, is whether training on proprietary, non-trade-secret sources would be allowed. Something like unreal engine, where you can view the source but it's still proprietary.
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Terminal Smooth Scrolling
Windows Terminal is pretty good and a new terminal emulator written in the last few years. No smooth scrolling, here's the GitHub issue requesting it: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1400
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Microsoft defends Edge's predatory practices with cringe reply on X
Assume its related to this:
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362
It's nothing serious just microsoft engineers writing slow as shit code and reacting poorly to someone trying to help.
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Should Windows have a default CLI editor?
"There are plenty of offline scenarios where this would be incredibly useful. For disconnected environments, etc. There are some environments that will never connect to winget."
Source: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440#disc...
- Windows Feature Exploration: Default CLI Text Editor
- Default Windows CLI Text Editor (Neovim/Emacs/edit/)
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