Snippy

Snippy is a linux snippet manager with powerfull features !

Features

Clipboard

• Restore current clipboard after pasting the snippet
• {clipboard} placeholder to use current clipboard in snippet, ex:

CREATE DATABASE \`{clipboard}\` CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

• {clipboard_urlencode} placeholder to use current clipboard in snippet with urlencode format, ex:

https://cachedview.nl/#{clipboard_urlencode}

Cursor

{cursor} placeholder to place the cursor

• go left to the correct position for cli and gui paste

  <pre>{cursor}</pre>
  

• go up for block snippet for gui paste

  <pre>
    {cursor}
  </pre>
  

Parsing

• ##noparse header in snippet to not parse/execute the snippet.

  ##noparse
  date --date="$(date +%F) -1 month" +%F
  

• directly execute command begining by $
• execute bash script in $snippets_directory/scripts
• copy script content when selection is selected by CTRL+Return, exemple:
  • with the following snippet: $(date +%Y-%m-%d-%Hh%Mm%S)
  • using Return will paste the current date
  • using CTRL+Return will paste the command directly

Icons !

Icon name is set in rofi with the root directory name of your snippets.

If you have the following snippets, the terminal icon will be displayed in rofi:

    terminal/
    ├── other/
    │   └── date
    └── script/
        └── test

Cli

# snippy -h

Usage:
	/usr/bin/snippy [OPTION] ACTION
	Snippy snippets manager
Options
	-h, --help Show help
Actions
	gui	 Browse snippet and paste it in the focused window (default)
	cli	 list snippet in cli mode, only copy snippet in the paste buffer
	edit	 Browse snippet and edit it
	add	 Add a new snippet
	list	 list snippet
	cat	 list category