Display full help with 'help' function (#5195)

Display full help with 'help' function
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Keith Hill
2017-11-06 10:19:39 -08:00
committed by Aditya Patwardhan
parent 2670917981
commit c781959232
2 changed files with 22 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -4253,6 +4253,11 @@ param(
[switch]
${ShowWindow})
# Display the full help topic by default but only for the AllUsersView parameter set.
if (($psCmdlet.ParameterSetName -eq 'AllUsersView') -and !$Full) {
$PSBoundParameters['Full'] = $true
}
#Set the outputencoding to Console::OutputEncoding. More.com doesn't work well with Unicode.
$outputEncoding=[System.Console]::OutputEncoding
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ Describe "Get-Help should find pattern help files" -Tags "CI" {
}
}
Describe "Get-Help should find pattern alias" -Tags "CI" {
Describe "Get-Help should find pattern alias" -Tags "CI" {
# Remove test alias
AfterAll {
Remove-Item alias:\testAlias1 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
@@ -300,5 +300,21 @@ Describe "Get-Help should find pattern help files" -Tags "CI" {
$help.Category | Should BeExactly "Alias"
$help.Synopsis | Should BeExactly "Where-Object"
}
}
Describe "help function uses full view by default" -Tags "CI" {
It "help should return full view without -Full switch" {
$gpsHelp = (help Microsoft.PowerShell.Management\Get-Process)
$gpsHelp | Where-Object {$_ -cmatch '^PARAMETERS'} | Should Not BeNullOrEmpty
}
It "help should return full view even with -Full switch" {
$gpsHelp = (help Microsoft.PowerShell.Management\Get-Process -Full)
$gpsHelp | Where-Object {$_ -cmatch '^PARAMETERS'} | Should Not BeNullOrEmpty
}
It "help should not append -Full when not using AllUsersView parameter set" {
$gpsHelp = (help Microsoft.PowerShell.Management\Get-Process -Parameter Name)
$gpsHelp | Where-Object {$_ -cmatch '^PARAMETERS'} | Should BeNullOrEmpty
}
}