Enable console cursor movement and selection like the ISE

Feature request…

System Details

• Operating system name and version: Windows Server 2016 Version 10.0.14393

code -v
1.12.2
19222cdc84ce72202478ba1cec5cb557b71163de

$pseditor.EditorServicesVersion
Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
1      2      1      0

code --list-extensions --show-versions
DotJoshJohnson.xml@1.8.0
ms-mssql.mssql@1.0.0
ms-vscode.PowerShell@1.2.1

$PSVersionTable
Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      5.1.14393.1198
PSEdition                      Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1.14393.1198}
BuildVersion                   10.0.14393.1198
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

Issue Description

It would be great if you could enable cursor movement and text selection in the integrated console like the PowerShell ISE allows. PSReadLine support will be great but this would go a bit further by enabling:

• Left clicking with the mouse on the command line to move the console’s cursor to that location
• Selecting a range of text (ideally, including multiple lines) with the mouse then deleting that text via the delete key, starting to type, or pasting something in (paste via keyboard or mouse).
• Keyboard-based text selection across multiple lines (e.g. Shift+Arrow keys).

I realize you’re intentionally using the standard PowerShell host instead of something like the ISE and this may require upstream changes. I’m happy to submit this feature request in a more appropriate location. This goes to providing the “best possible experience to the PowerShell community through Visual Studio Code”.

Thanks for the great work - I’m excited about where this is going.

[dragonwolf83]

You can now Alt+Click to move the cursor on the command line with the mouse. This was just added in Visual Studio Code v1.21.

[SydneyhSmith]

Closing this as PSReadLine is now available in the PowerShell preview extension #1793