snippy-rs

A simple cross-platform CLI tool to manage user-defined snippets written in Rust. Snippets are loaded and unloaded through the clipboard. The snippets are stored in JSON format inside the application folder located inside the default user data folder for the platform. These are obtained through the crate directories:

• $HOME/.local/share for Linux,
• $HOME/Library/Application Support for MacOS,
• %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming for Windows.

Installation

Cargo install

You can install this crate with Cargo by doing

cargo install snippy-rs

From source

You can build this crate from source using the following commands:

> git clone https://github.com/NicolasChagnet/snippy-rs.git
> cd snippy-rs
> cargo build
> cp target/release/snippy /dest/path

In the last command, you can copy the binary to any folder contained in your $PATH.

NOTE: The crate cli-clipboard requires the libraries xord-dev and libxcb-composite0-dev to be built.

Usage

To set a new snippet, just run

snippy set NAME DESCRIPTION

The content of the snippet will be pulled from your clipboard and associated with the identifier NAME. The description is optional.

The various snippets can then be displayed with

snippy

which will start a selector with fuzzy search. Pressing Enter will copy the snippet's content back to your clipboard while pressing Esc exits the menu.

A snippet can be removed by using

snippy del

and select the snippet to delete from the menu.

A snippet can be edited using the current clipboard content with

snippy edit

and select the snippet to edit from the menu