When you open the PowerShell ISE for the first time it may look like a familiar command prompt window.
Text editor in powershell windows. As one example though this will create an input file you could just use one you already have but this is a fully contained example read it replace the word text with the word fun and write an output file. So open up your Powershell window. PowerShell script editors Notepad.
You can install nano in powershell via choco - Its a low friction way to get text editing capabilities into powershell. New PowerShell cmdlet functions can be written in any text editor or word processing tool. Reader Andreas Kohl mentioned SlickEdit which was a text mode editor for DOS OS2 and Windows console before Visual SlickEdit stole its name.
According to the companys employee an OS2 version of the editor was used by some Windows NT team members to develop their operating system. There are basically two commands that you can use to edit a file. This works but is hardly the same as a fully featured text editor.
But nothint came from Microsoft. In Windows Server 2008R2 can be. SelectBackwardChar Adjust the current selection to include the previous character.
This cmdlet is also unique to the PowerShell ISE. ExampleFile This is some text. Use this command to see all the files in the current folder.
That means that It doesnt have any of the PowerShell-specific features you might find in a dedicated editor. Vim emacs over a remote powershell session. Its basics Powershell editor but you can extend it by installing Powershell ISE Steroids addon.