Text Editor a bit like nano, written in pure powershell.
Main feature that psano has over native editor is that it has access to powershell objects, such as variables and functions. PSano supports editing the following objects:
- Local files on the current computer.
- Remote files via a PSSession.
- Function definitions, changes will take effect in the current session.
- Variables, may be converted to a string array.
More or less anything that supports Get/Set-Content can work, but
the above have proper conversions.
You can edit a file by just passing the path to psano, if you want to create a new file just use the path you want to create.
psano -Path .\test.txt
For remote files establish a session and pass it to psano.
$RemoteSession = New-PSSession -ComputerName computer01
psano -Path c:\full\path\test.txt -Session $RemoteSession
Separate parameters are used for variable and functions.
psano -Variable myvar
psano -Function New-Guid
Hotkeys are displayed at the bottom the of the window. Only basic actions are implemented at this point in time.
- Control + X: Exit without saving.
- Control + O: Save file.
- Control + K: Cut current line and place it on the Clipboard.
- Control + U: Paste from the clipboard.
The Hotkeys mirror those used in nano for similar actions.
PurpleMonkeyMad
https://github.com/purplemonkeymad
/u/purplemonkeymad
I originally created it after if saw a post about editing files in a PSSession without installing new files. I prototyped this but in the end it was not going to work anyway for the problem. But since I had the idea I finished a basic editor. It was not until later I realized that the USP for this was going to be accessing PSDrives that were not basic file systems.
This editor is not intended to be used for large editing jobs, just the quick small changes that you might have messed something up and you might need a character here or there.