In his brilliant talk Activation Energy, Brandon Rhodes recommend starting all your scripts with a comma character (,
) so they are easy to search with the shell autocomplete.
In the Linux context it might work, but on Windows Powershell (7), starting a script name with ,myscript.psy
don't seems to be recognized by the autocomplete (typing ,
+TAB
won't do anything).
What character could be used to achieve the same purpose?
How do you identify your script?
I'm assuming that you're talking about scripts located in a directory listed in $env:PATH
, i.e scripts you can call by name only, from any working directory.
,
+ Tab (e.g., tab-completing script ,foo.ps1
in the current directory turns into & '.\,foo.ps1'
(the quoting is necessary due to the nonstandard name, and the quoting in turn requires use of &
, the call operator).For $env:PATH
-based scripts ,
does not work, as you've experienced, and the only alternatives I can think of are:
_
^
At least on an English keyboard, neither is as convenient to type as ,
due to requiring leaving the home row of the keyboard and pressing Shift.