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Edit: Anyone coming to the question now. Please look at the dates. This is a very, very, old question from the first version of PowerShell. Everything is now different
Just starting out with PowerShell, I would love to have intellisense support for writing PowerShell scripts. Tab-completion works great so you would think it would exist somewhere, but the only thing I can find an article from 2007 - hardly up to date.
Is there an extension somewhere that gives you this ability?
How about an editor?
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Intellisense provides the following added benefits over tab completion: Automatic drop-down when options are available – better discoverability. A view of a dozen (or so) options at a glance – no need to remember the options. Icons to help identify the type of options available.
The “$_” is said to be the pipeline variable in PowerShell. The “$_” variable is an alias to PowerShell's automatic variable named “$PSItem“. It has multiple use cases such as filtering an item or referring to any specific object.
$_ in the PowerShell is the 'THIS' toke. It refers to the current item in the pipeline. It can be considered as the alias for the automatic variable $PSItem.
Try this -
http://powergui.org/index.jspa
This is a good editor with intellisense
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The Windows PowerShell ISE which is installed with later versions of PowerShell has got built-in intellisense.
Also Visual Studio Code with the PowerShell extension is another option
And ISE Steroids if you want to stay with ISE
But seems direction is VS Code, especially with Core
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