23.2. How PowerTab Works
PowerTab completely replaces the shell's tab completion mechanism. It supplies all the standard completions that you are used to: commands, variables, functions, and so on, and adds a lot more. For example, I find PowerTab very useful when I am trying to script a .NET type. Remember the code that used the System.Net.WebClient class from Chapter 17? PowerTab can help you by completing the type name in the New-Object cmdlet invocation line if you press Tab while typing the full class name. Finish typing the namespace part, at least, so that you do not get a huge list of suggestions. Figure 23-1 shows how the suggestions list looks.
Figure 23-1. PowerTab completing .NET class names
See the [Tab] text shown at the upper-left ...
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