Character-snippets

A small program that generates a Visual Studio Code snippets file, with either builtin snippets (>1000 Unicode characters) or a custom TOML input file.

# Install with Rust. Alternatively, download a binary from the Releases page.
cargo install character-snippets

# Put a snippets file in a good location for Visual Studio Code on Linux. These
# snippets will be visible in all workspaces.
character-snippets --builtin > ~/.config/Code/User/snippets/chars.code-snippets

# Use a custom snippets file.
character-snippets my-custom-snippets.toml > ~/.config/Code/User/snippets/chars.code-snippets

# To find out where the snippets files are located on your operating system, run
# "Preferences: Configure User Snippets" and create a new global snippets file.

The format of the input file should be as follows:

[Snippets]
    xbrackets = "〚$1〛"
    xcheckbox = "☐ "
    xchecked = "☑ "
    xcheckmark = "✓"
    xch = "✓"

Visual Studio Code will interpret variables such as $1 as placeholders.

Output will be sent to standard output.

Installing

Download binaries:

→ from the GitHub releases page

Alternatively, compile from scratch on Unix:

# 1. Install Rust
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
# 2. Add ~/.cargo/bin to PATH
source $HOME/.cargo/env # or log in again
# 3. We need a basic build environment (cc, ld) for a dependency
apt install build-essential
# 4. Install character-snippets
cargo install character-snippets
# 5. Profit!
character-snippets --builtin > ~/.config/Code/User/snippets/chars.code-snippets # for Linux
character-snippets src/builtin-snippets.toml > ~/.config/Code/User/snippets/chars.code-snippets

License

This project is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this project by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.