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I would appretiate if someone could explain the practical utility of snippets because it just dawned on me how useful they might be.
Easy access to small snippets of code you often need, but putting them in their own library would be crazy.
Depending on the IDE snippets can also move parts of the code around: (intellij live templates)
Think about how you write code. Is it all new, or are there functions / API calls / whatever that you might re-use from time to time?
If that's possible, think about how you go find that code now. Wouldn't it be cool if you could type a short bit like, "funcA" and boom! your IDE filled in the whole function? Or, worst case, you flip over to another tool, find the snippet you want, copy and paste it into your work.
That's what I am thinking about, at least. I'm just not sure how I want to get there yet.
You could just write a little terminal utility that puts the string literal of the snippet in your copy buffer with a little search and db for finding the right one and storing new ones— might have to have some weird cases for cross platform tho
If you are unfortunate enough to code in a language where the “designers” thought EVERYTHING should be multi command structures in an English like syntax…..
Then you basically need them to autocomplete how to correctly write everything 😅
I use Abap at work from sap. Its special.
They have over 3000 key word structures. It’s ridiculous.