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PowerShell ISE Environment Keyboard Shortcuts

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It started with a simple question: is there a shortcut to go to the Console Pane in the ISE?  A few web pages gave lists of shortcuts, but then this guy went the extra … parsec.

https://www.powershellmagazine.com/2013/01/29/the-complete-list-of-powershell-ise-3-0-keyboard-shortcuts/

TL;DR: He scraped Microsoft.PowerShell.GPowerShell DLL for strings. 

That left him with a [hashtable] of name/value pairs.  I wanted something a little slicker, so I added a bit of output processing to turn it into a .CSV.

 

 $OutputPath = "$home\Desktop\PshIseKeyboardShortcuts.csv"

$ErrorActionPreference = 'stop'

if (!$psISE)
{
    Write-Error "This must be run inside PowerShell_ise.exe";
}

trap 
{ 
    if ($DebugPreference -eq 'continue') 
    { 
        Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red $_.Exception.Message; $Host.EnterNestedPrompt(); 
    }
}

$OutputFolder = Split-Path -Path $OutputPath -Parent
if (!(Test-Path -Path $OutputFolder))
{
    New-Item -Path $OutputFolder -ItemType Directory | Out-Null
}

if (Test-Path -Path $OutputPath)
{
    Remove-Item -Path $OutputPath
}

# https://www.powershellmagazine.com/2013/01/29/the-complete-list-of-powershell-ise-3-0-keyboard-shortcuts/

# All shortcuts are contained in the ISE Microsoft.PowerShell.GPowerShell assembly (DLL). 
# We first need to get a reference to that DLL.
$assemblyReference = $psISE.GetType().Assembly

# Next we create a ResourceManager object which provides access to the assembly resources. 
# We pass it the name of the resource we want to access without the .resources extension, 
#and the assembly containing the resources.

$resourceManager = New-Object System.Resources.ResourceManager GuiStrings, $assemblyReference

# All that’s left is calling the GetResourceSet() method to retrieve the resource set for a particular culture.

$resourceSet = $resourceManager.GetResourceSet((Get-Culture),$true,$true)

# Looking at the output we can see that the highlighted items value resembles key combinations. 
# If you look at your output you will notice items with a name that ends with ‘Shortcut’ (with 
# or without a trailing digit) and items that relates to Function keys. They start with F, 
# followed by a digit or two and the word ‘Keyboard’. With the following line we can filter 
# all keyboard related items and sort them out.

$shortcuts = $resourceSet | 
? { ($_.Name -match 'Shortcut\d?$|^F\d+Keyboard') -and ($_.Name -notmatch 'KeyboardDisplayName') } | 
Select-Object -Property @{ 
    n = 'Shortcut'; 
    e = {
        $_.value -replace '\+', ' + '; 
    }
},  @{ 
    n = 'Meaning'; 
    e = { 
        $_.key -creplace "([A-Z])", " `$1" -creplace '([^F\d])(\d+)', "`$1 `$2"
    }
} | Sort-Object -Property ShortCut |
Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -Path $OutputPath 
ii $OutputPath