Consider disabling module auto-loading during IntelliSense
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- csharp, powershell
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
Research direction
Start by tracing the IntelliSense path that uses Get-Command to gather details for the active completion result. Determine how to prevent that lookup from loading modules while retaining available cmdlet signature details; done means IntelliSense no longer causes session hangs or slowness from module auto-loading.
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Description
Module auto-loading during IntelliSense is causing some issues for people, including session hangs and IntelliSense slowness. We use Get-Command to gather information about the currently active IntelliSense result. This causes the module containing the command to get loaded, and if the module misbehaves somehow, it can damage the rest of the session.
We should consider setting the $PSModuleAutoLoadingPreference to "none" before running Get-Command so that IntelliSense details are only gathered for modules that the user has loaded. To make sure we have cmdlet signature details, we could potentially just parse the tooltips of the completions if they're available without loading the module.
- Dominant language
- C#
- Stars
- 767
- Forks
- 266
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
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