PowerShellOrg/PSKoans v0.65.0

PSKoans v0.65.0 - New Katas, and MORE Koans!

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Notable Changes

• Literally hundreds of new koans, both in old and new topics. We're well over 600 individual koans at present, and we'll still be adding more!
• New Commands:
  • Show-Karma: A pretty koan completion status display command, taking the place of Measure-Karma.
  • Get-Karma: Outputs a summary object of your PSKoans progress, including current topic progress information. Store your data as you progress to keep a log, or design your own pretty views using the same information used in Show-Karma!
  • Get-PSKoanSetting / Set-PSKoanSetting: Directly get and set persistent settings for your PSKoans module!
    • Currently available settings:
      • KoanLocation: Change the folder location that PSKoans reads from and stores your koan library in!
      • Editor: Change the default editor that PSKoans opens your library in when you call Show-Karma -Meditate! Full paths or executables available from $env:PATH locations are both supported!
    • Settings are stored in ~/.config/PSKoans/config.json
  • Utility commands, with many thanks to @indented-automation for his black-magic wizardry for these gems:
    • Get-PSKoan: Lists the koan topics available!
    • Update-PSKoan: Updates all your koan files, adding any missing koans in your topic files, and copies new topic files over! You can also target specific topics to update with -Topic
    • Reset-PSKoan: Reset individual koan topics, context blocks, or individual koan It blocks by name! Call without parameters to do a full reset of your koan topics. You will be prompted for confirmation before any changes are made to each topic.
• Updated Commands:
  • Show-Advice
    • Handles advice topic names like koan topic names - .Advice suffix no longer needed.
    • New advice topics thanks to @sudoblark!
  • Get-PSKoanLocation/Set-PSKoanLocation: Gets or sets the KoanLocation setting via Get-PSKoanSetting/Set-PSKoanSetting
• Retired Commands:
  • Measure-Karma: Retained as an alias to the new Show-Karma

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Community Contributions

A huge thank-you to all the folks from the community who helped make this update a hundred times better than it would otherwise be!

Special thanks go to @thomasrayner, @indented-automation, and @sudoblark for their hard work and immense contributions to the PSKoans topic library. (And especially for being willing to put up with me through some very thorough code reviews!)

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