Re: Snippets loading from file

Yeah, I read/understood it incorrectly (late night :)
Thanks for clarifications 😃

On Sun, Jul 25, 2021, 12:48 PM Christoph Cullmann <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 2021-07-25 06:50, Simon Walter wrote:
> > On 7/25/21 10:57 AM, Alex Turbov wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 1:45 AM Christoph Cullmann
> >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     On 2021-07-24 14:12, Simon Walter wrote:
> >>      > Hi all,
> >>      >
> >>      > I'd like to be able to, load snippets from file.
> >>      >
> >>      > The reason is that I'd like to be able to keep snippets in the
> >>      > project's
> >>      > git repo.
> >>      >
> >>      > From what I can tell, it looks like I can only load from "Get
> >> Hot New
> >>      > Stuff" API. Is that the case?
> >>
> >>     Hi,
> >>
> >>     yes, I think you are right.
> >>
> >>     For the local stuff you could version the files stored in the
> >> default
> >>     locations
> >>     but at the moment there is no way to e.g. have per project
> >> snippets
> >>     or to load them from dedicated positions.
> >>
> >>     e.g. for project related snippets it could make sense to integrate
> >>     the snippets plugin like the search plugin with our projects
> >> plugin
> >>     and load stuff stored project locally automatically or allow
> >>     to specify in .kateproject json where to load stuff from.
> > ...
> >> > Please Noooo! I use the snippets plugin intensively and **NEVER** use
> >> the project plugin.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > To clarify, I don't mean the project plugin. I used the word "project"
> > in a generic sense.
> >
> > However, that will not put you at ease if you think that adding a
> > feature will remove other features. I do have sympathy and can imagine
> > why you might think that.
> >
> > Recent trends demand the user to conform to the developer's whims
> > rather than the developer respecting the user, tradition, standards,
> > APIs, standing on shoulders, etc. I'm not sure why open source
> > developers feel the need to mimic this destructive behavior of jerking
> > around their users. I wish I had all the features that I had back in
> > 1999. I could literally do more with my computer back then.
>
> For Alex: please take a look how that integration is done in the search
> plugin.
>
> If you have no project plugin loaded, nothing changes for you.
> (and for sure nothing is removed)
>
> If you have the project plugin loaded, the search plugin just provides
> "extra" features,
> the search in project.
>
> If the same is done for other plugins, I don't see any harm, you will
> not see any change and people using the project stuff will benefit.
>
> Greetings
> Christoph
>
> >
> > Simon
>
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