Nap

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Nap is a code snippet manager for your terminal. Create and access new snippets quickly with the command-line interface or browse, manage, and organize them with the text-user interface. Keep your code snippets safe, sound, and well-rested in your terminal.

Text-based User Interface

Launch the interactive interface:

nap

Key Bindings

Action	Key
Create a new snippet	`n`
Edit selected snippet (in `$EDITOR`)	`e`
Copy selected snippet to clipboard	`c`
Paste clipboard to selected snippet	`p`
Delete selected snippet	`x`
Rename selected snippet	`r`
Set folder of selected snippet	`f`
Set language of selected snippet	`L`
Move to next pane	`tab`
Move to previous pane	`shift+tab`
Search for snippets	`/`
Toggle help	`?`
Quit application	`q` `ctrl+c`

Command Line Interface

Create new snippets:

# Quick save an untitled snippet.
nap < main.go

# From a file, specify Notes/ folder and Go language.
nap Notes/FizzBuzz.go < main.go

# Save some code from the internet for later.
curl https://example.com/main.go | nap Notes/FizzBuzz.go

# Works great with GitHub gists
gh gist view 4ff8a6472247e6dd2315fd4038926522 | nap

Output saved snippets:

# Fuzzy find snippet.
nap fuzzy

# Write snippet to a file.
nap go/boilerplate > main.go

# Copy snippet to clipboard.
nap foobar | pbcopy
nap foobar | xclip

List snippets:

nap list

Fuzzy find a snippet (with Gum).

nap $(nap list | gum filter)

Installation

Install with Go:

go install github.com/maaslalani/nap@main

Or download a binary from the releases.

Customization

Nap is customized through environment variables:

NAP_HOME, the folder where your snippets will rest. Defaults to $XDG_DATA_HOME/nap.
NAP_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE, the language your snippets will use by default.
NAP_THEME, the theme to highlight code. Defaults to dracula.
NAP_PRIMARY_COLOR / NAP_PRIMARY_COLOR_SUBDUED, the color to use for the active pane title bars.
NAP_RED / NAP_BRIGHT_RED, the colors to use for the selected item being deleted.
NAP_GREEN / NAP_BRIGHT_GREEN, the colors to use for the selected item being copied.
NAP_FOREGROUND / NAP_BACKGROUND, the colors to use for the foreground and background colors.
NAP_BLACK / NAP_WHITE / NAP_GRAY, the colors to use for the unselected items.

License

MIT

Feedback

I'd love to hear your feedback on improving nap.

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