Did you realize that you can use Wildcards with our tab completion?<\/p>\n
At the very beginning of the project, we had long discussions about whether it should be "Verb-Noun" or "Noun-Verb". One of the arguments for NOUN-VERB was that it was better for tab completion. We expected a TON of nouns but only a few verbs. As such, if you type VERB-<TAB>, you’d see a ton of things to choose from. Alternatively, if you typed NOUN-<TAB>, you’d only see the VERBS that apply to that noun. <\/p>\n
That wasn’t a good enough reason to go NOUN-VERB. In the end, we wanted a THINK-TYPE-GET system and VERB-NOUN makes command sequences read like English:<\/p>\n
Get-Process |where {$_.handles -ge 500} |sort handles |format-table name,handles<\/p>\n
So what about tab completion – are you just hosed? NOPE.<\/p>\n
PowerShell’s tab completion supports wildcards. Try it yourself:<\/p>\n
*-Pro<TAB>
*-p<Tab>
*-p*er<TAB><\/p>\n
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All that said, I would be remiss if I didn’t point you to MOW’s excellent replacement for our tab completion called PowerTab. You can get it HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Did you realize that you can use Wildcards with our tab completion? At the very beginning of the project, we had long discussions about whether it should be "Verb-Noun" or "Noun-Verb". One of the arguments for NOUN-VERB was that it was better for tab completion. We expected a TON of nouns but only a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" Did you realize that you can use Wildcards with our tab completion? At the very beginning of the project, we had long discussions about whether it should be "Verb-Noun" or "Noun-Verb". One of the arguments for NOUN-VERB was that it was better for tab completion. We expected a TON of nouns but only a few […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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