As of powershell 6 you have a module called PSReadLine installed by default. This module changes the editing experience of powershell and is customizable. One thing that I really like is to have auto completion for historical commands. In this post I will show you how I setup PSReadLine in my profile.
Start by installing PSReadLine.
Get-Module -ListAvailable PSReadLine
Install-Module PSReadLineThen open up profile code $PROFILE
#Imports PSReadLine
Import-Module PSReadLine
#Tab - Gives a menu of suggestions
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function MenuComplete
#UpArrow will show the most recent command
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key UpArrow -Function HistorySearchBackward
#DownArrow will show the least recent command
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key DownArrow -Function HistorySearchForward
#During auto completion, pressing arrow key up or down will move the cursor to the end of the completion
Set-PSReadLineOption -HistorySearchCursorMovesToEnd
#Shows tooltip during completion
Set-PSReadLineOption -ShowToolTips
#Gives completions/suggestions from historical commands
Set-PSReadLineOption -PredictionSource History
More about PSReadLine can be found here: https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine
Happy coding!
