Detent Point
“PowerShell editor” means two different things. One is a console question: how do I edit a text file from inside a PowerShell session, without leaving the shell. This page isn’t that: if that’s what you need, the answer is a console-native command, not a separate application.
The other is an application question: what editor application do I open to write and run PowerShell scripts. That’s this page. If you want the ISE’s script-and-console layout on PowerShell 7, that’s DetentShell.
- Script pane over console pane, in one window: write above, run below, no switching apps
- Syntax highlighting and IntelliSense for PowerShell 7’s grammar, Ctrl+Space
- Live PSScriptAnalyzer diagnostics as you type, with Quick Fix to apply a correction in place
- Step-through debugging: breakpoints, stepping, call stack, watch and locals
- One-click Pester test generation, free and built in — something neither the ISE nor VS Code’s PowerShell extension does today
A general-purpose text editor with a PowerShell syntax file will highlight your code. It won’t run it, debug it, or generate a test for it without an extension you install and a workspace you configure yourself first. In DetentShell the console, the debugger, and the test generator ship in the same window from the first launch.
See how it stacks up against VS Code, the ISE, and PowerShell Studio →
You can’t install this application yet. The build itself works: 944 automated tests pass today across the editor, console, debugger, and analyzer. What’s left is getting a signed installer out the door, since every release ships signed under Detent Point LLC and nothing unsigned goes out ahead of that.
PS> Start-Process "https://detentpoint.com/detentshell/download"
# Coming soon — ships once the installer is code-signedComing soon. DetentShell launches at $29.99 in the Microsoft Store for its first two weeks. The regular price that follows is not final yet and will be published here first; volume licensing for teams is handled separately.