Vista - Set-PSDebug -Step behavior

After setting "Set-PSDebug -Step"

I can step through each line of code while being prompted with
[^_^]PS[114]>ls

Continue with this operation?
1+ ls
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help
(default is "Y"):


In that case, if you say "A" for "Yes to All", I expected "A" to apply only
to "ls"
but for successive commands after selecting "A",
I wasn't being prompted for "Continue with this operation?".

It seems like after selecting "Yes to All", "-Step" switch seems to go off
globally
although I meant to say "Yes to All" for that current command i was stepping
through.

Is this intended by design or hmm a bug?
I don't personally care about this matter that much
but it just didn't seem intuitive enough for me since I was thinking about
setting
"-step" option thru "Set-PSDebug -Step:$false".

DBMwS wrote:
> After setting "Set-PSDebug -Step"
>
> I can step through each line of code while being prompted with
> [^_^]PS[114]>ls
>
> Continue with this operation?
> 1+ ls
> [Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help
> (default is "Y"):
>
>
> In that case, if you say "A" for "Yes to All", I expected "A" to apply only
> to "ls"
> but for successive commands after selecting "A",
> I wasn't being prompted for "Continue with this operation?".
>
> It seems like after selecting "Yes to All", "-Step" switch seems to go off
> globally
> although I meant to say "Yes to All" for that current command i was stepping
> through.
>
> Is this intended by design or hmm a bug?
> I don't personally care about this matter that much
> but it just didn't seem intuitive enough for me since I was thinking about
> setting
> "-step" option thru "Set-PSDebug -Step:$false".

also it wil also get in debug mode so all internal functions are handled
so [a]ll is very tempting ;-)


MowPS>Set-PSDebug -off
MowPS>ls


Directory: Microsoft.


Mode LastW
....
.....

MowPS>Set-PSDebug -step
MowPS>ls

Continue with this operation?
1+ ls
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help
(default is "Y"):
DEBUG: 1+ ls

Continue with this operation?
1+ $_.PSParentPath
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help
(default is "Y"):
DEBUG: 1+ $_.PSParentPath

Continue with this operation?
1+ $catr = "";
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help
(default is "Y"):

gr /\/\o\/\/

The current behaviour is by design. "Yes to All" is equivalent to
"Continue" - that is, stop stepping and just proceed with execution.
Unfortunately the script debugging features are pretty vestigial in V1. We
had grand plans but they've been deferred to a future release...

-bruce

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Bruce Payette [MSFT]
Windows PowerShell Technical Lead
Microsoft Corporation
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"/\/\o\/\/" <no@spam.mow> wrote in message
news:uCNWBb1gGHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> DBMwS wrote:
>> After setting "Set-PSDebug -Step"
>>
>> I can step through each line of code while being prompted with
>> [^_^]PS[114]>ls
>>
>> Continue with this operation?
>> 1+ ls
>> [Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help
>> (default is "Y"):
>>
>>
>> In that case, if you say "A" for "Yes to All", I expected "A" to apply
>> only to "ls"
>> but for successive commands after selecting "A", I wasn't being prompted
>> for "Continue with this operation?".
>>
>> It seems like after selecting "Yes to All", "-Step" switch seems to go
>> off globally
>> although I meant to say "Yes to All" for that current command i was
>> stepping through.
>>
>> Is this intended by design or hmm a bug?
>> I don't personally care about this matter that much but it just didn't
>> seem intuitive enough for me since I was thinking about setting "-step"
>> option thru "Set-PSDebug -Step:$false".
>
> also it wil also get in debug mode so all internal functions are handled
> so [a]ll is very tempting ;-)
>
>
> MowPS>Set-PSDebug -off
> MowPS>ls
>
>
> Directory: Microsoft.
>
>
> Mode LastW
> ...
> ....
>
> MowPS>Set-PSDebug -step
> MowPS>ls
>
> Continue with this operation?
> 1+ ls
> [Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help
> (default is "Y"):
> DEBUG: 1+ ls
>
> Continue with this operation?
> 1+ $_.PSParentPath
> [Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help
> (default is "Y"):
> DEBUG: 1+ $_.PSParentPath
>
> Continue with this operation?
> 1+ $catr = "";
> [Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help
> (default is "Y"):
>
> gr /\/\o\/\/