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Easily stash snippets of text and invoke them when needed

Install

npm install -g snips-cli

Examples

snips                           # with no arguments it will just list all your snips.
snips list                      # lists all your snips.
snips new <snip-name>           # create <snip-name> snip
snips edit <snip-name?>         # edit <snip-name> snip, fuzzy completion if snip-name is skipped
snips copy <snip-name?>         # Copies content of the snip to the clipboard, fuzzy completion if snip-name is skipped

Live

Behind the scenes

All snips are stored in ~/.snips directory. You can play around with them to your hearts content without adversely affecting the functioning of snips.

snips looks for the $EDITOR global variable, and uses the defined $EDITOR.

Recipes

I've refrained from reinventing the wheel and overloading snips with unnecessary features. Here are a couple of recipes that I find work well with snips.

Search Snippets

Use grep or ag.

grep <search-term> ~/.snips
ag <search-term> ~/.snips

Fuzzy Search snippet-names

copy and edit support fuzzy completion out of the box

snips copy
snips edit

Use snips in multiple machines

Backup .snips in git.

TODO

Non Goals

• gist support.
• git support.
• content search in snips

Credits

I've tried to mimic most of the features of sheets, and add a couple on top. While sheets is awesome, I didn't know ruby enough to directly hack on it.

LICENSE

MIT © Srijan R Shetty