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How to page up or down in `man` of powershell

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With command help or its alias man, we can display the docs of a command in shell. But how to browse it? I found we can go to next line by pressing <Enter> or jump by <p>, but how to page up?

CodePudding user response:

You just scroll with your mouse.

I know, I know, you come potentially from another platform (where you always want fingers on the keyboard) and want that here.

Well, life often does not give us what we may want. ;-}, so, we have to deal with what is. ;-}

Yet, in the Windows Terminal using the WinPS or PSCore console, you just use the hotkeys:

Crtl Shift up arrow
Crtl Shift down arrow

It's actually the help files, shortcut listing.

If you feel TLDR regarding the MS PS docs, just as the console for a list:

For example for PSReadLine which is in WinPS and PSCore.

Get-PSReadlineKeyHandler | 
Format-Table -Property Key, Function -Autosize

Or use Out-GridView to filter what you'd need to learn to use:

Get-PSReadLineKeyHandler | 
Out-GridView -Title 'Consolehost Keyboard Shortcuts'

The WinPS ISE has a similar command to see all the keyboard shortcuts there as well.

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