The Way (the-way)

A code snippets manager for your terminal.

Record and retrieve snippets you use every day, or once in a blue moon, without having to spin up a browser. Just call the-way to add a snippet with a description, a language, and some tags attached. the-way search fuzzy searches your snippets library (with optional filters on language and tags) and lets you copy a particular snippet to your clipboard, so you can paste it into whatever editor or IDE you're working with.

See it in action (with some self-referential examples):

made with Terminalizer

Install

Prerequisites

For Linux users (to get X11 and the clipboard to work): bash apt-get install xorg-dev libxcb-composite0-dev

With cargo

bash cargo install the-way

Currently doesn't work on Windows (waiting on this issue)

Make shell completions:

bash the-way complete zsh > .oh_my_zsh/completions/_the-way exec zsh

Features

• [X] Recognizes language extension to enable syntax highlighting in $EDITOR (if the editor supports it)
• [X] Configurable syntax highlighting themes for display via the-way themes
• [X] Import/export to JSON
• [X] Shell completion
• [ ] Language and code statistics

Why "The Way"?

The name is a reference to the Way of Mrs.Cosmopilite, kōans for every situation.