How to use snippets?

[Stephen Hawk]

Still on a journey to familiarize myself with CopyQ, I saw the Snippets command. However, although I tried various ways to use it, I cannot understand how it works.

I installed the Snippets command, but what do I do next? How and where could I add snippets?

Could I have a step by step example of setting up and using snippets?

[M B]

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Thanks

MB

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[Stephen Hawk]

Hmm... I discovered that the tab Snippets has to be written exactly as "Snippets". I had entered it as "&Snippets" which apparently doesn't work.

However, I still don't understand how the placeholders should work:

"Items can contain placeholders like

• ${Name} (default text is empty),
• ${Name:value} (default text is "value"),
• ${Name:value1,value2,value3} (default text is "value1"; allows to select from multiple values),
• ${Name:\n} (multi-line text field)."

How would I use the above, for example, to have a "Fruit" snippet that would let me choose to paste one of apples, oranges or pears?

[Lukáš Holeček]

To start:

1. create "Snippets" tab,

2. add new item (Ctrl+N) with a snippet:

    You picked ${Fruit:apples,oranges,pears}!

3. set optional snippet title (Ctrl+F2), e.g. "Fruit".

Triggering the Snippets command (with a global shortcut) should show simple dialog where you can pick the snippet by its title.

To pick different tab name, you have to change the command's code.

    var snippetsTabName = '&Snippets'

Lukas

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[Stephen Hawk]

Thank you for the explanation. It's quite simple now and very a very useful feature of CopyQ.

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