What it is?

Sniper is a clould enabled, terminal based easy to use snippet manager.

Getting Started

Installation

Currently, sniper is shipped only via pip.

Prerequisites

• Python3.x

OS X

pip install pysniper

Linux

On linux you need to install xsel for sniper to work properly

sudo apt-get install xsel

Then just install via pip

pip install pysniper

If there is a permission error use

pip install --user pysniper

Windows

pip install pysniper

Usage

• To kick things off you can create a new snippet using sniper new

  Note: To store the snippet as an executable use -e flag.

  

• Other commands - ls, cat, rm

  

• To get the snippet on clipboard, use get duh. If the name has spaces, put it in double quotes.

  sniper get [snippet-name]

• To find a snippet, use the find command

  sniper find [query-string]

• You can edit the snippet using edit

  sniper edit [snippet-name]

• Use the run command if snippet is stored as an executable (stored with -e flag)

  sniper run [snippet-name]

Cloud commands

Basically Sniper uses two basic commands to store and retrieve snippets - push and pull

• If push is used directly, all the snippets stored locally will be pushed to server as private which means nobody except you will be able to access them.

  sniper push

  If you wish to store a single snippet use the -s flag to specify the name of snippet.

  sniper push -s [snippet-name]

  Use sniper push --help for more info.

• Pull also by default fetches all the snippets stored on server.

  sniper pull

  Again if you wish to retrive a specific snippet, you can use the -s flag.

  sniper pull -s [snippet-name]

  Use sniper pull --help for more info.

  

Note - You need to signup/signin to store the snippets on server

Use sniper --help for more information and commands. For help regarding specific commands use
sniper [command] --help

Built With

Sniper uses the following open source projects

• Click - For building the terminal interface
• fuzzywuzzy - For fuzzy search
• clipboard - For copying text to clipboard

Contributing

Sniper would love contributions! To set up the development environment follow the below steps -

Prerequisites

• Python3.x
• sudo apt-get install xsel (For linux)
• Golang 1.7 and above (for running the server locally)

Steps

1. Fork and clone the project.

2. Open you terminal and download virtualenv using pip if you don't have it already.

   pip install virtualenv

3. cd into cloned project and create a virtual environment

   virtualenv -p python3 venv

4. Activate the environment.

   On OSX/Linux it's as simple as

   source venv/bin/activate

   For Windows

   venv\Scripts\activate.bat

5. Install sniper in the virtual environment

   pip install --editable .

   Don't forget the .!

For running the server locally

1. Open sniper/constants.py, comment the production section and uncomment the testing section.

2. cd into server directory.

3. Run go run main.go and voila! You are running the Sniper Server.

After making the changes locally, push them in your forked repository and make a pull request :)

Tests

Just run ./script/test

Todo

• More testing and tests (including server tests)
• Make find realtime
• Change editor functionality
• Create a web interface to view public snippets
• Improve docs
• Support regex in find query
• Windows python-Levenshtein dependency fix
• Ship through multiple package managers
• Autocomplete

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.