What Code Snippet Editor Do You Use?

Question

Part of my "sort your development life out, Rob" push has been me taking note of the fact that I do not have a library of code snippets (and Jeff did a post too). Now I have a few, but I know I should really be working towards creating my own library to boost my productivity.

One thing I have started doing is leaving my code snippet editor open (Snippy) and whenever I realise I am writing common code, I stop and make a snippet for it.

I was just wondering what editors you guys use? There may be a better one out there and if I am missing out I so want to get in on that! :)

Answer 1

honestly, in reality, regardless of what I would like to think and say, my empirically tested, productive library is "search in file" and "open that project and that file I did few months ago". I say this since that is easy, real life example of something and best way to re-use. For the ones saying "yes, but you can' access easily something from 18 months ago, I will say: that is just not realistic: code older then 18 month is obsolete!

ok, but now to answer the question with the best tool I think people should try: http://www.evernote.com/ it is cool because in one tool you can do you geeky code library, but also use it for other non geeky stuff. plus, it has cool OCR technology to help you search even pictures! (with text in them)

Answer 2

I've never used one, but I've heard about Code Snippet Editor from Microsoft. This version is for VS 2005. However, there's also a VS 2008 edition.

Answer 3

I add snippets into TextMate bundles (RSpec, Rails, etc)

Answer 4

Textmate all the way for me, I'm actually creating a new bundle for use with the PHP framework that I'm now using.

Answer 5

Snippet Compiler is a great little mini-IDE that's perfect for checking little code snippets.

Answer 6

I also use this Snippet Compiler, the one @moobaa linked.
I think it is really good and helpful to test "on the fly" little pieces of code, running them immediately without firing up the entire Visual Studio env; it can target different frameworks version. Try it, it is good.

Answer 7

http://www.linqpad.net/ it's awesome.
Apart from snippets you can query SQL databases as well
A set of small webcasts on linqpad can be found here:
http://dimecasts.net/Casts/ByTag/LinqPad

Answer 8

Rick Strahl recently posted a great MVC project for linking to code snippets from social networking sites:

1. The project explanation can be found here Introducing CodePaste.NET
2. The actual site is available at CodePaste.net

Answer 9

I am a bit biased since this is my project. But I use the Snippet Designer. It integrated directly inside Visual Studio and lets me highlight a section of code and just export it into a snippet editor.