Powershell ISE + vim

Question

Is it possible to make Powershell ISE behave like vim with some vim-like editing mode or plugin?

In netbeans I'm using jVi, and in Visual Studio I'm using VsVim, is there something similar for PowerShell ISE?

Or should I drop Powershell ISE altogether and just use vim + powershell command line?

Tabanid

I would like to say that you are comparing apples to oranges. PowerShell ISE is not a text editor it is meant for scripting. It uses Intellisense and tab completion for path, commands, properties, etc. – Stressful

Yeah I guess you're right. I'm pretty new to PowerShell ISE. I just wanted to be able to do familiar navigating when I'm writing those scripts. Like hjkl and so forth. – Tabanid

Someone told me once to just use the damn arrow keys. Again, they told me .... not you. If this helps here are some keyboard shortcuts. A bunch are obivous but it could be useful. – Stressful

serverfault.com/questions/36991/…. There is not definitive for what you want but this has been discussed once in the past. Sorry about the answer I misinterpreted the question. – Stressful

Answer 1

I may be misunderstanding the question, but the closest I've come to getting vim-like ability while using PS ISE is to install gvim74 for Windows, and create this function:

function vim 
{ 
    if ($args)
    { 
        start-process 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim74\vim.exe' $args
    }
    else
    { 
        start-process 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim74\vim.exe'
    }
}

Unfortunately, ISE does not play nicely with console input, so the best I can get is starting vi in a new PS window. Not perfect, but I get my ability to "vim fileToEdit", which I do A LOT in non-Windows world.

Humorist

Answer 2

The last weaks i searched for a way to use psISE in combination with vim (i found out its possible but hard for me to code without the ISE-comfort) In the end i created a function/submenu in the ISE that:

• With a keyboard-shortcut ([AltGr]+[v]) starts vim with the current file and waits for the process to end
  
• When I'm finished editing in vim and saved the file its removed from the ISE
  
• And loaded again (bacause in v3 there is no file "refreshing")

# one-line $psISE.CurrentPowerShellTab.AddOnsMenu.Submenus.Add("edit with Vim",{$cur=$psISE.CurrentFile; saps "C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim74\gvim.exe" $cur.FullPath -wait; $psise.currentpowershelltab.files.remove($cur); $psISE.currentpowershelltab.files.add($cur.fullpath) },'Ctrl+Alt+v')

You have to save it first or it will not be removed
(maybe you add the $psise.CurrentFile.Save()-function)
(for permanent ISE-changes you have to put it into the $profile...)

*saps --> start-process alias

Jacquiline

Answer 3

The best thing I've found is VSCode with the PowerShell and VIM plugin installed. The Powershell plugin used to be a lot worse than ISE, but recently the Intellisense has gotten much cleaner.

Chunchung