deimos

Fast, cross-platform, snippets or text expander. Whatever you wanna call it.

Imagine typing something weird in an input field somewhere, like hello and all of a sudden the text gets replaced with hello darkness my old friend.

That's the gist of it at least, creating simple keys that expand into bigger, more complex things.

Configuration (deimos.toml)

You define your snippets into a file called deimos.toml and place that file into your home directory.

• Windows -> C:\Users\Username\deimos.toml
• Linux -> ~/deimos.toml

The contents of the file are as follows:

[snippets]
one = "1"
two = "2"
long = """
This is a paragraph
of random text that I want
to have on hand in case an
opportunity to use it arises.
"""

As easy as that. Under the header [snippets] you write some key value pairs, where the key is what you want to type with your hands and the value is what you want to insert in its place.

Building

At the moment there are no actual releases since the projet is still in the "this is a fun gimmick" phase so you'll have to build it yourself if you want to use it.

Building deimos, however, is very easy.

1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/0x20F/deimos

2. CD into the directory cd deimos

3. Build using cargo cargo build --release

4. Your new binary should now be available in deimos/target/release

Contributing

Any contributions are welcome!

• If you have random ideas that might work well with something like this, you're more than welcome to open up a discussion and we'll talk about it.
  
• If something's broken and you'd like it fix open an issue!
  
• If something's broken and you've fixed it yourself, even better, open a Pull Request!
  
• If you feel lonely, or bored, open up a discussion and we'll see what happens!
  

Everybody's welcome!