'select' and 'sort' aliases not highlighted.

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
powershell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the PowerShell snippets from the issue in a supported editor and compare highlighting for the aliases where, sort, and select with Where-Object, Sort-Object, and Select-Object. Done means aliases receive consistent highlighting and all Verb-xxx commands are highlighted consistently, including related keywords identified during investigation.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

bug

In the following snippet

Get-AzureVMImage 
| where ImageFamily -eq $imageFamily
| sort PublishedDate -Descending 
| select -ExpandProperty ImageName -First 1

the aliases sort and select are not highlighted like the where alias, besides representing the same type of filter/alias.

When expanding the snippet to

Get-AzureVMImage `
| Where-Object ImageFamily -eq $imageFamily `
| Sort-Object PublishedDate -Descending `
| Select-Object -ExpandProperty ImageName -First 1

Where of Where-Object will be highlighted as keyword, Sort-Object won't be highlighted and Select-Object will be highlighted as command.

Expected behavior:

  • all alias should be highlighted the same way.
  • all commands (Verb-xxx) should be highlighted the same way.

Note: there might be other keywords that are effected by this issue.

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