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How do you manage code snippets? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/programming@programming.dev

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Do you keep them in your IDE, or elsewhere? Do you have an app for that? Are they easily shared?

I realized I have no system at all but could use one to make it easier to find code I've written and might need again some day.

By snippets, I am referring to any chunk of code / text in any format or language, of any length.

Thanks!

EDIT A DAY LATER: Thanks you all! Reading all these ideas, I got inspired to create my own little web app. Wish me luck... :)

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[–] otl@lemmy.srcbeat.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let’s say a function, about 20 lines. Something too small to warrant an external dependency but tricky enough that you don’t want to keep rewriting it.

I have things like a function to read through a file of newline delimited text of key-value pairs separated by whitespace. It skips comments (lines beginning with “#”), and returns the pairs. I’m happy to do a little copying instead of having a little dependency.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

It is really really easy to make libraries.