On: Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell?

[nailer]

ISE is the best for learning but doesn't have good readline support (it's not quite a normal windows console). Once you're up to speed, grab ConEmu. It's the iTerm2 of the Windows world.

[aytch → nailer]

ConEmu is pretty great (and WAY better than a standard console), but CMDer builds upon the ConEmu base and improves it, in my opinion: http://cmder.net/

[YeGoblynQueenne → nailer]

>> ISE is the best for learning but doesn't have good readline support

But it has very nice tab completion with a graphical drop-down :0

[toyonut → nailer]

It either has the full powershell console in a pane depending on your view settings or you can hit f8 to run highlighted text or the line your cursor is on.

[oellegaard → nailer]

At least you have proper copy/paste in ISE :P

[nailer → oellegaard]

ConEmu has Unix style, highlight & right click paste. :P~

[chris_wot → oellegaard]

Not if you run RealVNC, it kills cut...

[chime → chris_wot]

Thanks for pointing this out. I thought I was going crazy when it happened to me just yesterday.