Restore saves the state of your terminal so you can restore it the next time you open one.
Disclaimer
This is probably not a great idea. Every time you execute a command, this module serializes your location, variables and loaded modules to a CLIXML file.
How to use
Install the module.
Add it to your profile.
Restore terminals that you closed previously.
After restoring a terminal, the following will be restored.
- Location
- Variables
- Modules
How it works
If you want to use this module, load it into your PowerShell profile.
When you import the module, it assigns an event handler to the AvailabilityChanged event of the main runspace.
$Host.Runspace.add_AvailabilityChanged({Checkpoint-Terminal})
Every time the runspace changes state (like when it completes running a command), it will call Checkpoint-Terminal. This will create a hashtable with your session state, serialize it to CLIXML and save it to disk.
$state = @{
Location = (Get-Location).ToString()
Variables = Get-Variable -Scope "Global" | ForEach-Object { [PSCustomObject]@{ Name = $_.Name; Value = $_.Value } }
Modules = Get-Module | ForEach-Object { [PSCustomObject]@{ Name = $_.Name; Path = $_.Path } }
}
Start-Job -ScriptBlock {
$args[0] | Export-Clixml -Path "$Env:AppData\restore.$pid.clixml"
} -ArgumentList $state
If you close a terminal that you didn't mean to close, you can call Restore-Terminal in a new PowerShell window to load up the terminal state. Kinda like Ctrl+Shift+T in a browser.