{"id":4923,"date":"2016-02-19T09:37:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T14:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=4923"},"modified":"2016-02-19T09:37:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T14:37:40","slug":"friday-fun-tweaking-the-powershell-ise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell-ise\/4923\/friday-fun-tweaking-the-powershell-ise\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Tweaking the PowerShell ISE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today's fun is still PowerShell related, but instead of something in the console, we'll have some fun with the PowerShell ISE. One of the things I love about the PowerShell ISE is that you can customize it and extend it.\u00a0 My ISE Scripting Geek project<\/a> is an example.\u00a0 But today I have a simple example that you can try.<\/p>\n

When I'm training or creating courses for Pluralsight<\/a>, I am often in the PowerShell ISE and it would be helpful to highlight the line of code I am going to run. But I don't want to muck around with a mouse. So I have created an ISE shortcut to select the current line.<\/p>\n

The ISE has an object model that has a root of $psise which is automatically created when you launch the ISE. I won't go into the entire structure now. For our purposes we want to take advantage of this method:<\/p>\n

$psise.CurrentPowerShellTab.AddOnsMenu.Submenus.Add()<\/p>\n

This method takes 3 parameters, the text to display, an action scriptblock and optionally a keyboard shortcut. If you don't want to use a parameter, use $Null in its place. Sometimes I create menu items that don't have keyboard shortcuts so I'll use $Null. But in this case a keyboard shortcut is the primary purpose.<\/p>\n

You can use any combination using Ctrl, Alt, or Shift along with function keys (F2) and alphanumeric characters. I'm going to use Ctrl+L because it is unused. If they keyboard shortcut is already used, you'll get an error when you run the command.<\/p>\n

I've posted a short script on GitHub to do the job.<\/p>\n