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A comment on Show HN: Codervault – Open-Source, Self-Hosted Snippet Manager.

Re:Show HN: Codervault – Open-Source, Self-Hosted Snippet Ma... by cel1ne on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @03:37PM (#12400875)
Not meaning to badmouth your project, but I've never understood the need for snippets as in code that I can copy and paste.

If I repeat myself I use a library, or a more concise language or IDE autocomplete.

On the other hand I do use Textmate's snippets feature, but those are interactive templates that I can invoke by pressing a letter and then fill them out by tabbing through them.

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Re:Show HN: Codervault – Open-Source, Self-Hosted Snippet Ma... by rjbrock on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @04:12PM (#12401132)
I think theyre generally used as a quick way to show someone a piece of code with some nice syntax highlighting.
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Re:Show HN: Codervault – Open-Source, Self-Hosted Snippet Ma... by SalGnt on Sunday September 04, 2016 @05:01AM (#12423453)
It can also be useful when you need a specific code that you used to solve a particular problem, or to store a configuration file.
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