PowerShell / PowerShell/vscode-powershell
Feature Suggestion: Cmdlet Help in Editor Right-Click menu
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- TypeScript
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Description
Sometimes while editing in a PowerShell file I need to access Help about a cmdlet quickly. It would be nice if we could right click on a particular cmdlet and access its help file from the drop down list.
Perhaps have a submenu allowing for the help to be shown in the integrated console, show window or online as well?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the extension's editor context-menu commands and its existing PowerShell help integration. Define how a selected cmdlet is identified and how help is routed to the integrated console, a window, or online. Done means a cmdlet right-click menu exposes the agreed help destinations and each option works.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- powershell, typescript, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100