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I have never heard of a snippet manager until right now. (In good faith:) Where did you hear of them? Should I be following news somewhere else? I see this one

I have never heard of a snippet manager until right now. (In good faith:) Where did you hear of them? Should I be following news somewhere else? I see this one is popular and high on DDG: https://github.com/massCodeIO/massCode https://github.com/massCodeIO/massCode But there's no screenshots or example usages, and it's not obvious to me how it works. Is it like a local search engine you install? Is it an LSP? An LSP that's lighter than rust-analyzer could be useful for this kind of thing. Edit: I searched for "What is a snippet manager" and DDG search returned a bunch of useless-looking listicles, but their AI actually told me and linked to an article explaining it: https://www.codiga.io/blog/code-snippet-definition/ https://www.codiga.io/blog/code-snippet-definition/ Edit 2: I guess it's meant to be used as a VS Code extension. It might work as a standalone app but it would be a little unwieldy. I don't think my favorite text editor has a web view built in, so I couldn't install massCode in there

latexr 1y ago
> Where did you hear of them? I no longer recall, I’ve been using them for something like two decades. > But there's no screenshots or example usages, and it's not obvious to me how it works. See SnippetsLab for a good example of a snippets manager. https://www.renfei.org/snippets-lab/ https://www.renfei.org/snippets-lab/ > I guess it's meant to be used as a VS Code extension. It might work as a standalone app but it would be a little unwieldy. I prefer it as a standalone app. I don’t use VSCode nor would I want integration with my text editor. Snippet managers generally have ways of being invoked from anywhere, or you can type a few characters and have them replace the text, or you can search them from launchers like Alfred. https://www.alfredapp.com https://www.alfredapp.com https://alfred.app/workflows/renfei/snippetslab/ https://alfred.app/workflows/renfei/snippetslab/

latexr 1y ago

> Where did you hear of them? I no longer recall, I’ve been using them for something like two decades. > But there's no screenshots or example usages, and it's not obvious to me how it works. See SnippetsLab for a good example of a snippets manager. https://www.renfei.org/snippets-lab/ https://www.renfei.org/snippets-lab/ > I guess it's meant to be used as a VS Code extension. It might work as a standalone app but it would be a little unwieldy. I prefer it as a standalone app. I don’t use VSCode nor would I want integration with my text editor. Snippet managers generally have ways of being invoked from anywhere, or you can type a few characters and have them replace the text, or you can search them from launchers like Alfred. https://www.alfredapp.com https://www.alfredapp.com https://alfred.app/workflows/renfei/snippetslab/ https://alfred.app/workflows/renfei/snippetslab/