Change "Starting PowerShell" message when Integrated Console starts up

[kvprasoon]

Integrated terminal is awesome, especially when it is PowerShell.
But it always shows "Starting PowerShell..." even if is started.

We would like our awesome editor to its maximum perfection.

System Details

• Operating system name and version: Windows 10 (10586.916)

• VS Code version: 1.10.2

• PowerShell extension version: 1.0.0

• Output from $PSVersionTable: 5.0.10586.672

[daviwil]

That's because "Starting PowerShell..." is output. If you type "Get-Process", the output will push it out of the screen. Are you asking for it to never be displayed?

[PowerSchill]

He might be referring to #742

[daviwil]

That's what I thought at first, but he's not using a Windows Insider build.

[rkeithhill]

You can put Clear-Host in your C:\Users\<username>\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.VSCode_profile.ps1 and that will clear this message when the profile script is processed. That's what I do. :-)

[daviwil]

I wonder if more people are annoyed by the message? I considered that when I added it, but I thought that maybe having it there was helpful to indicate that you're in the Integrated Console.

[rkeithhill]

Maybe it's the transient nature of the message that might be a teensy bit confusing. Taking a page from the powershell.exe:

What if you modified the message to:

PowerShell Integrated Console <version #?>
PS C:\> 

For the default prompt, you might even make it:

PSIC C:\>

Or maybe that's going too far?

[daviwil]

Yeah, I think that's the right way to do it.

[kvprasoon]

or We can have the Starting PowerShell message in the Status bar, where we see icons of error and warning !!! (and clear it once started).

[rkeithhill]

The status bar message already exists:

The "want", as @daviwil says above, is to provide a way to help folks know when they are in the PowerShell Integrated Console vs a normal PowerShell terminal. They look pretty close to the same.

[kvprasoon]

@rkeithhill my bad, I didn't noticed it. Then I think that is more than sufficient and no need to have it in console ...