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Show HN: Codervault – Open-Source, Self-Hosted Snippet Manager

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Re: Show HN: Codervault – Open-Source, Self-Hosted Snippet Manager

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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.

I think theyre generally used as a quick way to show someone a piece of code with some nice syntax highlighting.

Re: Show HN: Codervault – Open-Source, Self-Hosted Snippet Manager

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post #10

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.

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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