I have a simple aim here but the execution seems relatively complex. All I would like to do is format Write-Debug and Write-Verbose anywhere they appear as the first text in a line (sometimes indented but no characters in front of them).

I would like to format them the same colour as my comments (or just manually setting them to the same colour is fine). Potentially I might want the same formatting for the rest of the line but that is optional.

I have done a quick google but the depth on the answers seems a lot to get my head around for something so simple, hoping somebody can help simplify it!

Thanks in advance.

CodePudding user response：

You can do this with the

To highlight the whole line use:

"((^\\s*Write-Debug.*)|(Write-Verbose.*))": {

the text has to be in a capture group to be decorated. You could put the rest of the line into a different capture group if you wanted to decorate it differently.