about_PowerTab.help.txt
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about_PowerTab SHORT DESCRIPTION PowerTab extends the tab expansion feature of PowerShell to offer more productivity for PowerShell users. LONG DESCRIPTION Tab expansion is a productivity feature of PowerShell similar to intellisense. Pressing the TAB key will cause PowerTab to suggest full paths, command names or values based on the current context of the cursor. PowerTab offers handling for many common features of PowerShell, such as parameter names or enum values. PowerTab also contains extension points for adding specialized tab expansion support for third party applications and commands. GETTING STARTED PowerTab is packaged as a PowerShell module and can simply be imported after being saved to one of the locations of modules in $env:PSModulePath. Import-Module PowerTab With no arguments, PowerTab will offer to run the setup wizard which will help define a location to save the PowerTab config file. The config file is required to persist configuration settings for PowerTab, and cached values for .NET type, WMI class and computer name expansion. LOAD POWERTAB WITH AN EXISTING CONFIG To load an existing config file into PowerTab, pass in the full path to the config file as the first argument when importing the PowerTab module. $Path = "C:\Users\Bob\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\PowerTabConfig.xml" Import-Module PowerTab -ArgumentList $Path FEEDBACK Please submit suggestions, bug reports or questions to the PowerTab website. http://powertab.codeplex.com CREDITS This is a list of people and/or groups who have directly or indirectly helped by offering significant suggestions, code or linkable binaries. In no particular order: Marc "/\/\o\/\/" van Orsouw, MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/van%20Orsouw http://thepowershellguy.com/ Jason Archer Xaegr http://xaegr.livejournal.com/ Jacques http://janel.spaces.live.com/blog/ Igor Dvorkin SEE ALSO about_PowerTab_usage http://powertab.codeplex.com/documentation |