Live Template - PowerShell

Created September 22, 2021 22:04

I am trying to add PowerShell commands to my profile so I can not spend half my day typing "php artisan" commands. There are several I'd like to add along with other commands from other tools. I have the following template in my PowerShell Profile File:

PowerShell Template

```

# Name>         Key Generate
# Description>  Set the application key
# Command>
Set-Alias -Name key:generate -Value php-artisan-key-generate
function php-artisan-key-generate
{
    php artisan key:generate
}

```

I'm attempting to turn this into a live template that would populate all the fields except the description. The issue I'm running into is defining the different areas so update respectively with the hyphen or colon. The example below sort of works but if you notice in the example further down it pushes the hyphen or colon to the right instead of keeping it between the words. I would also like everything except the Name to be lower case just like the example above.

Any suggestions on how I might accomplish this?

Live Template

```

# Name>         $NAME1$ $NAME2$
# Description>  $DESCRIPTION$
# Command>
Set-Alias -Name $NAME1$:$NAME2$ -Value php-artisan-$NAME1$-$NAME2$
function php-artisan-$NAME1$-$NAME2$
{
    php artisan $NAME1$:$NAME2$
}

```

Live Template Output

```

# Name>         Make Cast 
# Description>  
# Command>
Set-Alias -Name Make Cast: -Value php-artisan-Make Cast-
function php-artisan-Make Cast-
{
    php artisan Make Cast:
}

```

3 comments

Andriy Bazanov

Created September 22, 2021 22:22

Hi there,

I've tried your Live Template in a plain text file (123.txt) and it works:

The final result:

Looking at your output:

For me it looks like you have entered whole "Make Cast" into a single variable instead of separate two. Double check that.

Andriy Bazanov

Created September 22, 2021 22:28

To make lowercase replacements: you would need to introduce intermediate variables $NAME1low$ and $NAME2low$ (can be named differently) that will contain transformed (lowercase) values of the original corresponding variables:

# Name>         $NAME1$ $NAME2$
# Description>  $DESCRIPTION$
# Command>
Set-Alias -Name $NAME1low$:$NAME2low$ -Value php-artisan-$NAME1low$-$NAME2low$
function php-artisan-$NAME1low$-$NAME2low$
{
    php artisan $NAME1low$:$NAME2low$
}

Transformations can be set after hitting the "Edit variables" button:

Screencast:

Marshall

Created September 23, 2021 00:18

Thank you for helping me understand this better. Now that I understand it slightly between I made a few additional changes which git me much closer than I had been.

Thanks again for the help!

Update:

# Command> $COMMAND$
# Name> $NAME$
# Description> $DESCRIPTION$
Set-Alias -Name $nameAlias$ -Value php-artisan-$nameSlug$
function php-artisan-$nameSlug$
{
php artisan $nameLower$
}

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