Custom Tab completion issues with PSReadLine

[staxmanade]

Hello,

I recently started playing with some custom tab completion and am noticing an issue when I have PSReadLlinerunning (vs not).

Repro Steps:

• Start up a powershell prompt without PSReadLline
• Run the following commands to setup a sample tab completion.

    if (-not $global:options) { $global:options = @{CustomArgumentCompleters = @{}; NativeArgumentCompleters = @{}}}
    $global:options['NativeArgumentCompleters']['sampleTab'] = {"asdf", "fdsa"}
    $function:tabexpansion2 = $function:tabexpansion2 -replace 'End\r\n{','End { if ($null -ne $options) { $options += $global:options} else {$options = $global:options}'

• at the command type sampleTab <tab> (notice how it expands to asdf and fdsa.

Now run the same steps above with PSReadLline setup.

Notice sampleTab <tab> (tab once) does nothing, and sampleTab <tab> (tab twice) clears the line?

Any thoughts?

[staxmanade]

looks like this isn't specific to custom tab completion...

typing:

ls <tab><tab>

clears the line.

[lzybkr]

This sounds like issue #46 which has been fixed for awhile. Also, based on your repro steps, I can't reproduce the problem.

What version of the dll do you have? This will tell you:

(dir ([PSConsoleUtilities.PSConsoleReadLine].Assembly.Location)).VersionInfo.FileVersion

The current version is 1.0.0.3.

BTW, I highly recommend you look at https://github.com/lzybkr/TabExpansionPlusPlus. This module makes it really easy to add your own completers.

[staxmanade]

when I ran (dir ([PSConsoleUtilities.PSConsoleReadLine].Assembly.Location)).VersionInfo.FileVersion I get 1.0.0.3.

Thanks for the TabExpansionPlusPlus link - will look into that...

[lzybkr]

I see - it doesn't repro for me because I'm building from the latest sources, not using the published binaries.

I'll update the binaries soon - until then you can build your own and the problem should go away.