Tab Completion - Ignore Quotes in input & add option to disable sorting

[FriedrichWeinmann]

based on: #638

Add a few new features:

• The simple completion should ignore leading and trailing quotes on input typed, in case the user reconsiders badly accepted input
• When registering the completer, there should be an option to disable auto-sorting
• There should be a global user preference setting to override the non-sorting
• Sorting should be based on ListItemText, not Text
• Completers should support localization on ToolTip and ListItemText
• Completers should support an option that allows training completion with previous input (making the completion offer previously offered input)
• Add option to always include quotes in completion
• Add option to also prepend a wildcard to completion filtering

[azra1l]

If you are at it, i have two more requests here,

a) Would it be also possible to have an option that makes results always have quotes, if the parameter at hand is a string variable?
Right now it only adds quotes when the result has spaces. I know it doesn't matter on the shell, I just like to have strings always be quoted.

b) Is there a way to make tooltip display respect typed values?
Currently it only shows tooltips on CTRL+Space when nothing was typed yet, if something was typed already, it just expands like tab would.

[FriedrichWeinmann]

a) is quite doable
b) is impossible without deeply hacking into the PowerShell engine - if there is only one legal parameter remaining, the tab menu is just going to complete like a normal tab. That's out of my hands, alas :(

[azra1l]

Alright, fair enough :)

But i just noticed yet another thing, i still have to write * in front to get values that match midtext.
I suppose psf just auto-adds the * at the end for the filter.
An option to filter with $WordToComplete would be nice.

I think that's all i have for now 🤞

Props for the god speed feedback 🥇 it's been 25+ years for me and this is just unmatched 😲

[FriedrichWeinmann]

Thanks :)
Vacation is a powerful tool - can't promise the same reaction speed starting next week, when the grind resumes ^^

I suppose psf just auto-adds the * at the end for the filter.

Yepp, it only adds one at the end. Pretty sure I can add some nice options there so a user can chose their preference themselves.