Hold my Snip!

Welcome to Hold my Snip!, a Rust-based CLI tool designed to enhance your development workflow by efficiently managing code snippets. With Hold my Snip!, you can easily store, retrieve, and organize snippets of code (or any text really 🤷‍♂️) under convenient aliases.

Features

• 🏗️ Manage: Easily store and organize your code snippets under aliases with a user friendly CLI
• 🔮 Find: Search and view your snippets in a terminal GUI
• 🪣 Ingest: Import snippets from csv
• 📊 Dashboards: Tracks your most used snippets and makes them viewable in a chart

Installation

cargo install hms

Usage

Usage:hms [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]

Commands:
  add     Adds a new snip with an alias, can be piped eg: `echo snip | add -a alias`
  import  Import snips
  stats   Snip stats
  help    Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -d, --display-mode <DISPLAY_MODE>
          [default: small]

          Possible values:
          - large: Full screen mode
          - small: Small mode; draws gui starting from current cursor line

  -h, --help
          Print help (see a summary with '-h')

  -V, --version
          Print version

Commands

add

Adds a new snip with an alias, can be piped eg: echo snip | add -a alias

Note: Aliases must be unique and no more than 50 characters in length.

Usage: hms add --alias <ALIAS> [SNIP]

Arguments:
  [SNIP]  The snip to add

Options:
  -a, --alias <ALIAS>  Alias for the snip being added
  -h, --help           Print help

import

Import snips

Note: Aliases must be unique and no more than 50 characters in length.

Usage: hms import <COMMAND>

Commands:
  csv   Import snips from csv file
  help  Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help

stats

Snip stats

Usage: hms stats <COMMAND>

Commands:
  top-ten  Display barchart for top ten most accessed snips, only considers snips accessed at least once
  help     Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help

Contributing

This project requires the use of Rust's nightly toolchain for code formatting, which can be installed and managed via rustup.

To install the nightly toolchain, open your terminal and run the following command:

rustup install nightly

Then use this to run the formatter:

cargo +nightly fmt

License

Hold my Snip! is open source and available under the MIT License. Feel free to use, modify, and distribute it as you see fit.