SAPIEN Forums

Product: PowerShell Studio 2019 (64 Bit)
Build: v5.6.160
OS: Windows 10 Enterprise (64 Bit)
Build: v10.0.17763.0

Pasting multiline-comments does not format correctly with the "Automatically format on paste" setting on.

The <# tag will paste from the current cursor position then the following text left-aligns.

eg.

}
<#
Powershell Studio
is cool when not pasting
#>

if ($BinPath)
{
<#
Powershell Studio
is cool when not pasting
#>
if ((test-path $BinPath))
{
<#
Powershell Studio
is cool when not pasting
#>

That didnt work too well....see attached image...

When it comes to multi-line comments, PowerShell Studio formatting does not modify the white space. So, if you paste at the end of a line, it will begin insertion at the point and leave it as is.

Hi David,
Thanks for responding. Yes, that is correct...but could it?

ie. If PSS sees the '<#' open tag then align all newlines below this point until '#>' is reached.

Would I need to raise a new feature suggestion or is there some underlying behavior that would prevent PSS performing this function?

Cheers

Yes, I highly recommend posting any feature request you have here:

https://www.sapien.com/requests

Try to include the formatting the behavior you wish to see applied and we will see what we can do.

David, I posted a link for a NFS using the link you supplied but was a bit of a disaster. When I posted my pre-formatted text which looked fine, everything left aligned so the post doesnt make sense and I can not delete or edit.

I also tried to upload an image file but was getting an error (looked like permissions) and the upload would not work.

I will ask the web team to investigate the issues.

Thank you for posting the request.

They resolved the issue upload issue and you can now use a <pre> tag to preserve the formatting.

For best results using the <pre> tag, enter an empty paragraph first, change it to PRE using the Formats->Blocks drop-down and then paste your pre-formatted text.