title: PowerShell description: "Configure PowerShell language support in Zed, including language servers, formatting, and debugging."

PowerShell

PowerShell language support in Zed is provided by the community-maintained Zed PowerShell extension. Please report issues to: github.com/wingyplus/zed-powershell/issues

• Tree-sitter: airbus-cert/tree-sitter-powershell
• Language Server: PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices

Setup

Install PowerShell 7+ {#powershell-install}

• macOS: brew install powershell/tap/powershell
• Alpine: Installing PowerShell on Alpine Linux
• Debian: Install PowerShell on Debian Linux
• RedHat: Install PowerShell on RHEL
• Ubuntu: Install PowerShell on RHEL
• Windows: Install PowerShell on Windows

The Zed PowerShell extension will default to the pwsh executable found in your path.

Install PowerShell Editor Services (Optional) {#powershell-editor-services}

The Zed PowerShell extension will attempt to download PowerShell Editor Services automatically.

If you want to use a specific binary, you can specify that in your Zed settings.json:

  "lsp": {
    "powershell-es": {
      "binary": {
        "path": "/path/to/PowerShellEditorServices"
      }
    }
  }