9. February 2009
Andy Schneider
Lee Holmes recently wrote a post on PowerShell Syntax Highlighting. I have been using Windows Live Writer for a while now and have used a variety of ways to post code snippets, functions, and scripts.
I really like the look and feel of Lee's output. Nice and clean, easy to copy and paste, line numbers and color coding.
So of course I went and tried it using his script. I was able to copy and paste into word without a problem and get all the cool nice highlighting, but as soon as I tried to paste in Live Writer, it just pasted in what seemed to be raw text.
I went digging around and found an option in Live Writer called "Paste Special."
The default was "Thinned HTML."
Using "Keep Formatting" allowed me to paste in the code just as expected.
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| function Set-File {
param
(
[parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
[string]
$file
)
$psise.CurrentOpenedRunspace.OpenedFiles.Add($file)
}
function invoke-caretline
{
invoke-expression $([Regex]::Split($psISE.CurrentOpenedFile.Editor.text,"`r`n" )[$psISE.CurrentOpenedFile.Editor.caretline-1])
}
function invoke-region{
param
(
[int] $num
)
$ed = $psISE.CurrentOpenedFile.Editor
$lines = [Regex]::Split($ed.text,"`r`n" )
$foundfirst = -1
$foundlast = -1
for($count = 0;$count -le $lines.length-1;$count++)
{
if ($lines[$count].startswith("#region") -and $lines[$count].contains("@$num"))
{ $foundfirst = $count;break}
}
if($foundfirst -gt -1)
{
for ($count = $foundfirst; $count -le $lines.length-1;$count++)
{
if ($lines[$count].startswith("#endregion") )
{$foundlast = $count;break}
} # end For $lines
if ($foundlast -gt -1)
{
$torun = ""
$lines[$foundfirst..$foundlast] | % { $torun+=$_ + "`r`n"}
invoke-expression $torun
} # end if $foundLast
} # End for $count
} # End Function Invoke-Region
function Insert-Text{
param
(
[parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
[string]
$text
)
$currentFilePath = $psise.CurrentOpenedFile.FullPath
$currentFile = $psIse.CurrentOpenedRunspace.OpenedFiles |
where {$_.FullPath -eq $currentFilePath}
$currentFile.editor.InsertText($text)
}
function New-FunctionTemplate{
param
(
[parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
[string]
$verb,
[parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
[string]
$noun
)
$f = @"
function $Verb-$Noun {
param (
[parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipeline=$true)
[string]
$p1
)
begin {}
process {}
end {}
}
"@
Insert-Text -text $f
} |
I guess the next task is to write a plug-in for Jame's Write-CommandBlogPost