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[JamoCA]

I have some snippets that I like more than others and would prefer that they be the first match. In some apps, I have the ability to flag a "favorite" which would cause the item to rise to the top regardless of sort order. Is there any way to currently do that with Lintalist? (I know I can press 1-9, but that would require the item to be always returned in the same order while any new snippet could poison that muscle-memorized hotkey.)

[lintalist]

No that is currently not possible, what I do myself is assign shorthands to help them get to the top fairly quickly something like x1 or x2 for example but they are not in a fixed position.

At the moment you can choose to SortByUsage or not, if you don't the search results should be consistent and when opening the Gui the order shouldn't change. But hard to change the order of the snippets in such a case (would require editing the bundle in your text editor).

I'll think about a favorite option but I don't see an easy way to implement it yet as I would in such a case also like to be able to set the order e.g. favorite first pos, 2nd pos, 3rd pos.

[JamoCA]

heh... I have clients that previously added multiple dashes to product names to their products so that they would show up first in the results on their website. It was messy SEO-wise and went we packaged the data using XML for Google Products... so I'm not really a fan of adding prefixes to the snippet.

I have SortByUsage=0, but the new snippet is not #1 even though I've been using it exclusively all day.

Evernote had a "favorite" feature. I think all it does it sorts "favorites that match" first and then everything else by the existing sorting rules. (At least that's the way we write the rules using SQL... ORDER BY Favorites DESC, DateAdded DESC.)

[lintalist]

Just some notes for other readers, but perhaps it will give you some ideas you as well.

1. When you add a new snippet it is added at the END of a Bundle

So when combined with SortByUsage=0 it keeps that order and will not move it to the top, SortByUsage=1 will change the order of the snippets in a bundle with the most recently used snippet at the top.

2. You can add information to a snippet part1 or part2 without it getting in the way by using the [[comment=some text]] plugin

[[comment=some text]] will be removed from the snippet before it is pasted, so if you have several very similar looking snippets (or at least the beginning is very similar) you can use that to have some feedback in the listview/results or add something unique to help you filter the results faster.

* [[comment=template for javascript]]snippet text that has the same beginning....
* [[comment=template for python]]snippet text that has the same beginning....
* [[comment=canned email response]]snippet text that has the same beginning....

3. Searching is done in part1, part2 and shorthand

Apart from [[comment=]] you could also make use of the fact searching is done in part1+part2+shorthand of a snippet.

Adding some additional info/unique text in part2 or shorthand might help. I often "abuse" shorthand by adding something there I won't type but can partially remember, like q5 below:

part1                                          | part2       | shorthand
* snippet text that has the same beginning.... | javascript  |
* snippet text that has the same beginning.... | python      | /q5
* snippet text that has the same beginning.... | email       |

4. Creating a separate bundle for favs.

You could create a small bundle with favourites and edit the bundle txt file to set them in a specific order (be sure to close Lintalist before manually editing bundles)

Give it a file name that ensures it will be loaded first (these are sorted alphabetically and then processed) - something like 0favourites.txt (the 0 is important, or `_favourites.txt' should work I guess)

Now go to Configuration, AlwaysLoadBundles. It probably says default.txt as that is where it stores snippets when you start using Lintalist. Just add 0favourites.txt there (CSV) so it reads 0favourites.txt,default.txt

Restart Lintalist. Now each time you open the Gui all the snippets from 0favourites.txt should be visible, and if you do indeed use SortByUsage=0 the order shouldn't change so you can use the Alt+1 etc shortcuts or have the first results always include them if there is a match.
Note you should be able to move a snippet to another bundle with F6, or copy using F5. Copying might be safer until you're satisfied and see it works and then delete it.

[kingalex50]

Would it be possible to store the snippets on SQLite rather than text files?
There exists a wrapper on https://github.com/AHK-just-me/Class_SQLiteDB

[lintalist]

@kingalex50 No doubt it would be possible but I have no direct plans to do so.
For me the text file format is very convenient as I generate and edit them regularly but I can understand other people have no such requirements and don't care about the text file format.
I might do it at some point, but only after fixing some bugs / replacing old code from the main script (incorporating hotstrings() vs the input + loop that is being used until now)

[kingalex50]

This is a pretty cool piece of software. I use it to store code snippets from multiple languages that you can fire up any moment. You can think of it as an extension to your memory. Thanks for sharing.

[TFWol]

I wish I knew about this repo earlier. I've only had time to scratch the surface of what's possible with this software, but it's rapidly becoming critical to some of my workflows.