PSReadLine history search with wildcards

Summary of the new feature / enhancement

Often I remember some elements of former command lines. However when I used the forward/backward search capability, I have usually to go trough a lot of suggestions before finding the match. Being able to use wild cards would dramatically improve the research experience.

Exemple of current behavior:

I need to search for a line with:

Get-ADUser -Property Description, Manager -Identity accountX

Currently I have to go through:

Get-ADUser -Identity accountA
Get-ADUser -Property Description -Identity accountC
Get-ADUser -Property Manager -Identity accountD
Get-ADUser -Property Description, Manager -Identity accountN
Get-ADUser -Property Description, Manager -Identity accountO
Get-ADUser -Property Description, Manager -Identity accountX

Request:

I wish I could make my search with:

Get-ADUser*accountX

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

A similar feature already exists, though currently limited to the file system.

https://github.com/Ink230/DirectoryPredictor

[fullenw1]

@fullenw1 Just so I’m clear, are you asking for wildcard matching in history prediction, or the history searching, like when using Ctrl+r?

@daxian-dbw , originally it was for the history searching, like when using CTRL + R.

However, one can assume that if wildcards can be used with the history prediction too, then the history searching would become nearly useless, except for those who don’t want/like to use the history prediction.

Currently, I still use both. But I noticed that with the improvement of the history prediction (thanks to the CompletionPredictor module), I use less the history searching.

[daxian-dbw]

@fullenw1 Just so I’m clear, are you asking for wildcard matching in history prediction, or the history searching, like when using <kbd>Ctrl+r</kbd>?