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Comprehensive review of snippets management tools in emacs. The best way to manage code snippets in emacs.
Personally, I think snippets is under untilize. Same as notes. The fact is people just don’t do neither snippets or notes.
I defined code snippet as followed
A collection of either small/large code which may store in single/multiple files that you will revisit against in the future.
Focusing on manging code snippets in emacs, few packages come to mind including: yassnipet, auto-yasnippet, yankpad, and code library.
In my workflow, to share code snippet with others, gists is needed.
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Emacs's Snippet Management Packages Still Use Text-Based Management? Just Use Sqlite!
By now, in <2022-12-08 Thu>, it should be conclusive that any type of contents are best organized/managed using database. Responsibilities of database includes retrieve/store data. That’s it.
However, emacs manages data as text. Advantages of this is simplicity, but, this argument doesn’t even work anymore. why? Emacs supports SQLite as built-in!
I like Emacs because of level of compatibility that it provides, but it frustrates me to realized that open source community is not as collaborative, as a result, Emacs slow to adopts.