rsnip

A powerful command-line snippet manager with fuzzy search capabilities, written in Rust.

Features

• 🔍 Fuzzy search with interactive selection
• 📋 Direct clipboard integration
• ⚡ Fast and memory efficient
• 🛠️ Shell completion support (bash)
• 📝 System editor integration ($EDITOR)

Installation

From Source

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/rsnip.git
cd rsnip
cargo install --path .

Configuration

rsnip looks for configuration in the following locations (in order of precedence):

1. ~/.config/rsnip/config.toml
2. /etc/rsnip/config.toml

Example configuration:

[snippet_types.general]
source_file = "~/.config/rsnip/general_snippets.txt"
description = "General text snippets"

[snippet_types.shell]
source_file = "~/.config/rsnip/shell_snippets.txt"
description = "Shell command snippets"

Usage

Basic Commands

# Show help
rsnip --help

# List available snippet types
rsnip types

# Edit snippets (opens in your $EDITOR)
rsnip edit --ctype general

# Find completions interactively
rsnip complete --ctype general --interactive

# Copy a snippet to clipboard
rsnip copy --ctype general --input "my-snippet"

# Show version and configuration info
rsnip --info

Debug Levels

Use -d flags to increase debug verbosity:

• -d: Info level
• -dd: Debug level
• -ddd: Trace level

Shell Completion

To enable shell completion for bash:

source /path/to/rsnip.bash

Snippet File Format

Snippets are stored in a simple text format:

--- snippet-name
This is the content of the snippet
It can span multiple lines
---

--- another-snippet
Single line content
---

Development

Prerequisites

• Rust 1.70 or higher
• Cargo

Building

cargo build --release

Running Tests

make test

Debug Logging

Set the RUST_LOG environment variable for additional debug output:

RUST_LOG=debug cargo run

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the BSD 3 License - see the LICENSE file for details.