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PowerShells wrapping behaviour may be adequate for the console host. Using ISE it’s far from the optimal. But you don’t need to use the output pane. Send your output to a new ISE Editor. To see the difference just try:
get-help * | out-ISEFile

  1.  
  2.  
  3. function Out-IseFile
  4. {
  5.  
  6.     [CmdletBinding()]
  7.     param (
  8.         [Parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory = $True,  ValueFromPipeline = $True) ]        
  9.         $msg,
  10.         [Parameter(Position = 1, Mandatory = $False, ValueFromPipeline = $False)]        
  11.         $path = $null,
  12.         [Parameter(Position = 2, Mandatory = $False, ValueFromPipeline = $False)]        
  13.         $width = 2000,
  14.         [switch]$fl,
  15.         [switch]$passEditor
  16.     )
  17.  
  18.     Begin
  19.     {
  20.         $cnt = 0
  21.         $count   = $psise.CurrentPowerShellTab.Files.count
  22.         $null    = $psIse.CurrentPowerShellTab.Files.Add()
  23.         $Newfile = $psIse.CurrentPowerShellTab.Files[$count]
  24.         if ($path)
  25.         {    
  26.             $NewFile.SaveAs($path)
  27.             $NewFile.Save([Text.Encoding]::default)
  28.         }
  29.         $Editor = $Newfile.Editor
  30.        
  31.         filter Remove-TrailingBlanks { $_ -replace '(?m)\s*$', '' }
  32.         #filter Remove-TrailingBlanks { $_.TrimEnd() }
  33.     }
  34.  
  35.     Process
  36.     {
  37.         $cnt++
  38.        # if ($msg) { $msg | gm | Write-Verbose }
  39.        if ($cnt -eq 1)
  40.        {
  41.         $cmsg = @($msg)
  42.        }
  43.        else
  44.        {
  45.        $cmsg = $cmsg +  @($msg)
  46.        }
  47.     }
  48.    
  49.     End
  50.     {  
  51.         if ($cnt -gt 1)
  52.         {
  53.             $msg = $cmsg
  54.         }
  55.         if ($fl)
  56.         {
  57.             $msg = $msg |  Format-list | out-string -width $width | Remove-trailingBlanks
  58.         }
  59.         else
  60.         {
  61.             $msg = $msg | out-string -width $width | Remove-trailingBlanks
  62.         }
  63.         $msg = $msg +  "`r`n"
  64.  
  65.         #$Editor.SetCaretPosition($Editor.LineCount, 1)
  66.         $Editor.InsertText($msg)
  67.  
  68.         if ($passEditor){ $Newfile }
  69.        
  70.         Write-Verbose "Anzahl = $cnt   len msg = $($msg.count)"
  71.     }
  72. }
  73.  
  74. <#
  75.  
  76. $profile.psextended | out-IseFile -fl -verb
  77.  
  78. get-help *  | out-string -width 2000| out-ISEFile -verb
  79. get-help *  | out-ISEFile -verb
  80. get-help *  | out-ISEFile
  81.  
  82.  
  83.  
  84. $a =  $profile.psextended
  85. out-IseFile  $a -fl
  86.  
  87.  
  88. $a = get-help *  | out-string -width 2000
  89. out-IseFile  $a
  90. #>

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