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Do not display PSScriptAnalyzer's whitespace analysis for the cursor's line

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
developer-experience, devtools

Research direction

Start by locating where PowerShell Editor Services consumes or filters PSScriptAnalyzer diagnostics, then trace how the cursor's current line is represented. Verify the change against diagnostics for the current and other lines, ensuring only whitespace diagnostics on the cursor's line are excluded.

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Description

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Enhancement

Moved over from https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/issues/1033.

We should filter out PSSA diagnostics complaining about whitespace on the cursor's current line.

Dominant language
C#
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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