[Snippet Surfer] Allow creation of snippets from within Raycast

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[Snippet Surfer] Allow creation of snippets from within Raycast #14218

Open chrismessina opened 2 weeks ago

chrismessina commented 2 weeks ago

Extension

https://www.raycast.com/astronight/snippetsurfer

Description

By default, the Snippet Surfer doesn't 1) come with any pre-installed snippets and 2) doesn't allow you to create a snippet from within Raycast:

2024-08-27 (11 15 23) Arc

It would be great if you could quickly create new snippets from within this extension.

Who will benefit from this feature?

Anyone who uses Snippet Surfer.

Anything else?

No response

raycastbot commented 2 weeks ago

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mkitane commented 2 weeks ago

Hey @chrismessina, Currently, SnippetSurfer doesn't offer the ability to create snippets directly within raycast. It's intended for use with externally created YAML/Markdown files, allowing you to manage more complex snippets, edit them in an IDE, and save them in version control systems like Git.

If you’d like to see in-app snippet creation or editing, contributions are highly encouraged!

chrismessina commented 2 weeks ago

Fair enough... though how do you see Snippet Surfer interacting with or overlapping with Raycast Snippets? If Raycast Snippets were stored in MD, would that make this extension unnecessary?

mkitane commented 2 weeks ago

Short answer: No. Snippet Surfer is geared a bit more towards developers.

There are some other features that raycast snippet doesn't have:

Ability to show code blocks in the UI with some syntax highlighting (and more generally markdown syntax).
Automatically copies only the content inside code snippets for code snippets.
Stores snippets in a human-readable format and allows external editing (So you can bulk edit snippets with ease, auto generate them via code, etc...)
Automatically apply edits without manual imports (You can bulk import new snippets to Raycast but that's a manual process now).

slhck commented 3 days ago

I've created https://github.com/raycast/extensions/pull/14430/ to possibly help people onboard better, since I was also struggling with creating these snippets initially.