help repro this possible posh bug? tab completion with cmdlet andfunction conflicts

Someone help me confirm this posh bug? Create a function of the same name as a
cmdlet, the function must have at least one parameter. See if you can tab
complete on the function's params. Of course you should be able to because
functions have higher execution priority than cmdlets, but it doesn't work that
way for me.

I thought it was a bug of PS+, they thought it might be a PowerTab bug, but now
I think it might be powershell itself.

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Hal Rottenberg
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PowerShell doesn't complete the parameter.
When I enable PowerTAB, the parameter name appears is in the autocomplete
list as if it belongs to
the *original* cmdlet parameters.

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Shay Levi
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http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

Hal

I checked it on another machine (v1), even if the function is not named after
an exisiting cmdlet
there is no tab completion for parameters.

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Shay Levi
$cript Fanatic
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

Thanks for confirming, Shay.

The connect bug report is:
https://connect.microsoft.com/feedba...3468&SiteID=99

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Hal Rottenberg
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A little bit of background.

1) Powershell default tabexpansion logic doesn't have function parameter
expansion. This is something that Mow added in Powertab, where he
manually parses a functions definition from its scriptblock.

2) in powershell.exe you'll see the tabexpansion function doesn't even
contain cmdlet logic..

this is because doing a get-command each time is expensive and unneeded
when the host already knows the cmdlets loaded.. so powershell.exe
internally deals with a few tab expansion scenarios, namely CMDLETs and
provider (file system/registry etc) expanision.. then offloads the rest
of the scenarios to the tabexpansion function.

Some versions of Powertab (not sure about hte current) also override the
build in cmdlet expansion (so that mow can provide his console based
selection "windows" ).

In powershell plus , we also manually deal with cmdlets and file
expansion, but also a number of other things such as $_, before passing
it off to tabexpansion..

-Karl

Hal Rottenberg wrote:

Karl Prosser[MVP] wrote: Ahhh....I guess I need to retract my posh bug then and change it to mow bug.
Do I need to update the bug I filed with you or does this thread suffice?

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Hal Rottenberg
Blog: http://halr9000.com
Webmaster, Psi (http://psi-im.org)
Co-host, PowerScripting Podcast (http://powerscripting.net)