pwsh-psit-config.md

_Paging related config for Pwsh PSIT.md

• ✅ Pipe from PSIT -> bat with --pager invokation working, pipes full color

🐒> gcm help | % ScriptBlock
| bat -l ps1 --force-colorization --pager "less -R" 

• 🔴 Pipe PSIT -> bat -> less

🐒>gcm help | % ScriptBlock
| bat -l ps1 --force-colorization | less -R

• 🔴 Pipe PSIT -> bat -> less

🐒>gcm help | % ScriptBlock
| bat -l ps1 --force-colorization | less -R

Environment

🐒> Find-PagerEnvVars | Ft -AutoSize

Name           Value
----           -----
__PSPAGER_ARGS -R
LESS           -R
LOCALAPPDATA   C:\Users\cppmo_000\AppData\Local
PAGER          less -R
WSLENV         WT_SESSION::WT_PROFILE_ID

Commands

🐒> gcm pwsh, bat, less -All | ft -AutoSize

CommandType Name     Version Source
----------- ----     ------- ------
Application pwsh.exe 7.2.0.0 C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe
Application bat.exe  0.8.1.0 C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\bat.exe
Application less.exe 0.8.1.0 C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\less.exe
Application less.exe 0.0.0.0 C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\less.exe

Find-PagerEnvVars.ps1

function Find-PagerEnvVars {
  <#
 .synopsis
    find common pager related vars
  #>
  ls env: | ? Key -match 'less|pager|bat|wsl|term|local'
}

function viewHelpPager {
  <#
 .synopsis
    view the source code to 'help', which sets up a bunch of env vars for get-help
  #>
    gi function:\help | % ScriptBlock
    | bat -l ps1
}

# get pagers
$lessChoco = gcm less -All | ? Source -match ('chocolatey')  # C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\less.exe
$lessGit = gcm less -All | ? Source -match '\\git\\'   # C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\less.exe
$bat = gcm bat 
$lessChoco, $lessGit, $bat

fix-pasting-to-terminal.jsonc

/*
If you can't paste  multi-lines without it running them individually, 
this config fixes that */

/* this bind/hotkey is what breaks multiline pasting */
{
    "key": "ctrl+v",
    "command": "-workbench.action.terminal.paste",
    "when": "terminalFocus && terminalHasBeenCreated || terminalFocus && terminalProcessSupported"
},

less-git-vs-less-choco.md

• 🔴 Pipe PSIT -> bat -> less

🐒>gcm help | % ScriptBlock
| bat -l ps1 --force-colorization | less -R

k	v
$lessChoco	C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\less.exe
$lessGig	C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\less.exe

# get pagers
$lessChoco = gcm less -All | ? Source -match ('chocolatey')  # C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\less.exe
$lessGit = gcm less -All | ? Source -match '\\git\\'   # C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\less.exe
$bat = gcm bat 
$lessChoco, $lessGit, $bat

& $lessGit --help -R    # no color
& $lessChoco --help -R  # color

....
Get-Error | & $lessGit -R # no