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mirhagk
mirhagk

Reputation: 1285

Is there a way to get powershell's autocompletion working for an application?

Powershell has great autocomplete, allowing it to easily autocomplete parameters. Is it possible to provide this autocompletion when calling an application? E.g.

.\myscript.ps1 -Databa (pressing tab here will fill in Database)

but if you eventually decide to replace the script with a proper application

.\myapp.exe -Databa (pressing tab does nothing)

The application is a .NET application (if that helps). Is there any way for it to hook into whatever powershell is doing to determine the parameters?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1167

Answers (1)

briantist
briantist

Reputation: 47792

Sort of, yeah. But it's all within powershell; you wouldn't do anything within the .Net executable.

As @PetSerAl pointed out, PowerShell 5 has a much easier way to do it.

But it's still possible in earlier versions (though not well documented) by using a tab completer function.

posh-git makes use of this to autocomplete git parameters.

You might also want to look at TabExpansionPlusPlus.

Upvotes: 2

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