Putty alias

pageer@skepticats.com (Peter Geer)

Here's a quick code post from my Powershell profile. I keep copying this around every time I set up a new system, so maybe it will be useful to others. And to me, since I can copy it off the web in the future rather than having to dig it up or recreate it.

Being an old-school UNIX guy, I get used to just typing ssh hostname to access my servers. So the Putty syntax of loading a profile annoys me. To that end, I wrote a few little functions to add to my Powershell $profile to address this. They just let me load a session by typing the familiar commands and don't require me to change syntax when using a profile versus connecting directly to a hostname.

function _puttyHasProfile { $profile_name = $args[0].ToLower() $profiles = Get-ChildItem HKCU:\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\ foreach ($p in $profiles) { $lowerName = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileName($p.Name).ToLower() # Need the UrlEncode to account for profile names with spaces. if ($lowerName -eq [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode($profile_name)) { return 1 } } return 0 }

function ssh { $profile_name = $args[0] if (_puttyHasProfile($profile_name)) { putty -load $profile_name } else { putty $args } }

function sftp { $profile_name = $args[0] if (_puttyHasProfile($profile_name)) { psftp -load $profile_name } else { psftp $args } }

PowerShell highlighting in Vim

pageer@skepticats.com (Peter Geer)

Well, I feel stupid. I just finally got syntax highlighting for PowerShell to work in Vim. I did a little Googling and found my solution in the PDF document linked form this article. Why you need an 8 page PDF to explain this is a completely different issue.

Turns out I was just missing some lines in my filetype.vim file. I already had the syntax, indent, and file type plugins, I just didn't think to add the code to activate them (for some reason I thought that stuff was loaded dynamically). However, page 6 of that PDF gave the answer:
" Powershell au BufNewFile,BufRead *.ps1,*.psc1 setf ps1
I just added those lines to my filetype.vim, below the corresponding entries for Povray files, and voilà! Syntax highlighting now works.

LinLog

Putty alias

PowerShell highlighting in Vim