joplin-snippy/README.md

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

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

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