Set Powershell as the default shell of Far Manager?

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Can I set Powershell as the default shell of Far Manager?

Roman Kuzmin · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-17T20:15:02.820

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With PowerShellFar in Far Manager you can invoke PowerShell commands right from the command line with the prefix ps:. That is:

Commands with console output, prefix ps:

    ps: Get-Date
    ps: 3.14 / 3
    ps: [math]::pi / 3

Commands with viewer output, prefix vps:

    vps: Get-Process
    vps: Get-ChildItem C:\TEMP\LargeFolder -Recurse -Force

Commands starting UI or background jobs normally use prefix ps:

    ps: $Far.Msg("Hello world!")
    ps: Get-Process | Out-FarList -Text Name | Open-FarPanel
    ps: Start-FarJob { Remove-Item C:\TEMP\LargeFolder -Recurse -Force }

If you expect lengthy output consider to start Far Manager as Far.exe /w.

Finally see built-in PowerShellFar help, sections Command line and FAQ. You can define some accelerators. For example I use [Space] which inserts ps: into the empty command line. Thus, actually I have to type just 1 more symbol. This is a little bit inconvenient but it is perfectly compensated by the standard CMD shell at hands, CMD is not dead, especially in Far Manager.

edited Jan 17 '17 at 20:15

answered Apr 15 '11 at 16:08

Roman Kuzmin

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hi @RomanKuzmin, i try to set the accelerators as is explained in the help but when i write ">: Set-FarMacro Shell Space '> : Space' 'Easy prefix' -CommandLine 0" it trows that Set-FarMacro isn't found. When i execute >: gcm *far* i see all the far cmdlet but Set-FarMacro is missing. What i'm doing wrong? – mjsr Apr 15 '11 at 22:13
You should at first invoke `Import-Module FarMacro` (or F11 \ PSF \ Modules \ FarMacro). I should have mentioned this in help (will do, thanks). – Roman Kuzmin Apr 16 '11 at 01:45
Thanks Roman that was the missing step, :). I have only two more thing that bothers me about Farmanager but i'm going to search where to ask that, maybe you could give some light...(after working with it, if i return to the console the actual character mark dissapear and the insert mode is on (overwrite mode), and what is more incredible is that if i press insert to deactivate the insert mode, after entering a line, the insert mode appears again) – mjsr Apr 16 '11 at 15:27

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '20 at 22:28

An option that has not been mentioned so far (and it is not so great because out of the box, there is no auto completion), but you can enter

far:config

and scroll down until you find this setting:

System.Executor.Comspec                   │string │%COMSPEC%
System.Executor.ComspecArguments          │string │/S /C "{0}"

You can change it like so:

System.Executor.Comspec                   │string │powershell
System.Executor.ComspecArguments          │string │-c "{0}"

This will allow you to run PowerShell commands directly from the FAR shell.

Gaff · Answer 3 · 2017-04-20T16:08:54.407

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PowerShellFar allows you to integrate PowerShell into Far Manager.

PowerShellFar combines the rich console based user interface of Far Manager with full power of Windows PowerShell perfectly integrated into this original text friendly environment.

edited Apr 20 '17 at 16:08

answered Apr 04 '11 at 12:00

Gaff

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yea i know but how the default shell could work with powershell. That extensions allows me to execute powershell commands trough the menu f11..powershellfar..invoke.... i want to execute posh without doing all of that, if you look in the bottom of powershell far there is a command line, but for default works with cmd, :( i wanna change that – mjsr Apr 04 '11 at 13:49
Its simply not possible. – Justin Dearing Apr 04 '11 at 20:21

Set Powershell as the default shell of Far Manager?

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