PowerShell / PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer
Automatically split | characters to a new line
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Description
Summary of the new feature/enhancement
I should state that I am using VS Code. I was told that for this feature to be possible in VS Code, it has to first be implemented here. The setting I mention down below is a VS Code Powershell setting.
I'd like to the ability to take the following line:
$Ports | ForEach-Object -Process { NETSTAT.EXE -ano | findstr.exe :8080 | ForEach-Object -Process { ($_ -split '\s+')[-1] } | Sort-Object | Get-Unique | ForEach-Object -Process { taskkill.exe /F /PID $_ } }
and convert it to:
$Ports |
ForEach-Object -Process {
NETSTAT.EXE -ano |
findstr.exe :8080 |
ForEach-Object -Process {
($_ -split '\s+')[-1]
} | Sort-Object |
Get-Unique |
ForEach-Object -Process {
taskkill.exe /F /PID $_
}
}
I think this would go a long way in approving readability. At the very least, with the
"powershell.codeFormatting.pipelineIndentationStyle": "IncreaseIndentationForFirstPipeline"
setting enabled, when I manually add the new line after each |, { , and }, it will format the indentation correctly which is nice.
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction
The issue provides PowerShell examples and references the VS Code pipelineIndentationStyle setting; first locate the existing pipeline-formatting entry point and related tests in PSScriptAnalyzer. Compare current behavior with the requested splitting after |, {, and }, and define completion with tests covering the shown nested pipeline and indentation behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- powershell
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100