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Help the user keep their help up-to-date #2146

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TylerLeonhardt opened this issue Aug 21, 2019 · 2 comments
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Help the user keep their help up-to-date #2146

TylerLeonhardt opened this issue Aug 21, 2019 · 2 comments
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Area-Startup Issue-Enhancement A feature request (enhancement). Up for Grabs Will shepherd PRs.

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@TylerLeonhardt
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Summary of the new feature

Hit an interesting test failure today due to the fact that help is not updated in Azure Dev Ops.

Context: We use the help text for cmdlets in intellisense results.

This gives me an idea that it would be interesting if the PowerShell extension could inform users to update their help.

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Simple way:
Periodically notify the user to update their help

Smart way:
Figure out if we can tell there's been an update to help and run update-help for the user.

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corbob commented Aug 21, 2019

Smart way:
Figure out if we can tell there's been an update to help and run update-help for the user.

I like this...

... but ...

I never run vscode as administrator, and most of my help needs administrator to update...

Just a thought. Another thing might be users that can't update their help because they don't have admin on their computers 🤔

@ghost ghost added the Needs: Maintainer Attention Maintainer attention needed! label Aug 21, 2019
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IIRC PS Core doesn't require admin to update help. So maybe only offer to do this when the user is using PS Core as their default PowerShell?

@SydneyhSmith SydneyhSmith added Area-Startup Issue-Enhancement A feature request (enhancement). Up for Grabs Will shepherd PRs. and removed Needs: Maintainer Attention Maintainer attention needed! labels Aug 22, 2019
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