Hi,

 

I installed Pscx and Powertab and now, when I use Get-Help, it all goes into a separate screen or nested console app and then vanishes when I hit Q.

 

In other words, I get this at the end of the help display

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

...

...

 RELATED LINKS
    Set-Alias
    New-Alias
    Export-Alias
    Import-Alias

REMARKS
    For more information, type: "get-help Get-Alias -detailed".
    For technical information, type: "get-help Get-Alias -full".


(END)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

... with  the (END) at the end and when I hit "Q" to quit, the whole help display goes away.

 

This is not the default Posh behavior. I liked having my Get-Help exit gracefully before I installed these, so I could look at the help while using a Cmdlet.

 

Can anyone tell me how I can turn this functionality off without having to unistall Powertab or Community Extensions?

 What it seems to be doing is adding  

     | less 

automattically to Get-Help. I just cannot figure out where to turn it off.

 

Thanks.

 

Greg

PSCX ships with GNU less394.exe which is a fairly sophisticated paging program. However if you don't want to use it then open up "$env:ProgramFiles\PowerShell Community Extensions\Profile\PscxAliases.ps1" and comment out the following two lines:

Set-PscxAlias man Get-PagedHelp script -Force
Set-PscxAlias help Get-PagedHelp script -Force

The next time you start up PowerShell you won't be using less anymore. BTW you can also invoke Get-Help directly and that will bypass all paging (not just less).

Thanks, Keith. That worked perfectly.

-Greg