Making PowerTab 0.99 Beta 2 work on PowerShell V2 (CTP3)

Being very fond of PowerTab, it has been a loss that it did not work for PowerShell V2. But it turns out to be very simple to fix the problem. It fails as the parameter signature for $host.ui.rawui.NewBufferCellArray seems to have changed in V2.

Fixing the problem is a matter of changing two lines in <PowerTabDir>\TabExpansion.ps1. The old line is commented out -

#      $message = $host.ui.rawui.NewBufferCellArray(@('[Tab]'),'Yellow','Blue')
      $message = $host.ui.rawui.NewBufferCellArray(@('[Tab]'),[consolecolor]::Yellow,[consolecolor]::blue)

and

#      $message = $host.ui.rawui.NewBufferCellArray(@('[Err]'),'Yellow','Red')
      $message = $host.ui.rawui.NewBufferCellArray(@('[Tab]'),[consolecolor]::Yellow,[consolecolor]::red)

Have fun!

 

PS: It does not work in ISE