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Expose symbols API through $psEditor model

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
api, tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the existing $psEditor model and the current symbol-handling entry points. The issue describes exposing symbols for the current document and allowing registration of providers for unsupported DSLs; done should include both capabilities, with behavior verified through the project's existing tests.

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Description

Area-psEditor Issue-Enhancement

This API will allow $psEditor users to request symbols for the current document with which they can perform operations. This should also allow registering new "symbol providers" which are capable of scanning for symbols that PSES is not aware of (like custom DSLs, etc).

/cc @nightroman

Dominant language
C#
Stars
767
Forks
266
Avg merge
3d 16h
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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