Snip

Your code, snipped

Snip is an open source code snippet manager. With a simple command line interface, you can easily tag and save your code for future review.

New in release 0.0.9 (3/4/15)

Language support has been expanded to the following languages:

• JavaScript (existing)
• Ruby (existing)
• ERB (existing)
• HTML
• CSS
• Python
• PHP

Languages can be easily added through the lib/languages/languages.rb file. Submit an issue or pull request to have additional support added.

Search (with snip -s) is now smarter, with no case sensitivity and matching for individual words throughout the body of your snippet.

New in release 0.0.8 (2/8/15)

Snip now includes a clipboard functionality. Copy the code you want to save to your clipboard, then run snip -c. You'll be asked to specify a language type and a title.

Snippet search has been added in 0.0.8. From the commandline, run snip -a to see all of your snippets. To see only a certain language (rb, js, erb), specify as follows snip -s js. To search within the content of the snippet (for example, for any content with 'angular' in it), snip -s "angular".

Other miscellaneous functionality can be referenced with snip --help.

How it works

Snip uses simple, easy-to-remember tags that you place inside your code during your normal workflow:

# <$> Using a times loop
5 times do |x|
  puts x
end
 # </$>

At the end of the day, run snip <filename/directory> to update your snippet file with a single file or a whole directory of tagged files:

# **** Snippet 1: Using a times loop ****
# Snipped from test.rb:4 on 12/08/2014
5 times do |x|
  puts x
end

The original file tags will be modified slightly with <*$*> tags so you can rerun snip on your directory without duplicating old files.

Setup

Installation: Snip requires Ruby and Ruby gems on your computer.

To install:

gem install snipgem

First time use:

snip -f ~/desktop/

where '~/desktop/' can be the name of any directory you would like to save your my_snips file to. Run snip -f again to re-set the directory if you move the location of the my_snips file.

Future use:

snip directory_name/

or

snip filename.rb

Send feedback or bug reports to jgerminario@gmail.com.