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How do you manage code snippets? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/programming
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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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[–] coloredgrayscale 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Easy access to small snippets of code you often need, but putting them in their own library would be crazy.

  • Opening a file / db connection
  • parsing xml/json/... ,
  • template for unit tests,
  • import and initialization of framework at work.

Depending on the IDE snippets can also move parts of the code around: (intellij live templates)

  • variable.notnull -> if (variable != null) {... }
  • "text %s".format -> String.format("text %s",...)