Recycle is a glorified copy-paste utility for managing commonly-used templates and boilerplate. After creating a template once, you can save it with recycle for use in the future. Recycle can manage templates for single files or even entire directory structures.
Recycle can be installed with pip:
pip install recycle
Or by cloning the repo and running
python setup.py install
To save some files for later use, simply run
re new NAME_OF_TEMPLATE LOCATION/OF/FILES
So for example
re new MathHomework ~/homework.tex
Would save the file homework.tex under the name "MathHomework"
Similarly,
re new WebApp ~/WebAppTemplate/
Would save the directory ~/WebAppTemplate under the name "WebApp" Recycle also supports globbing which is cool.
NOTE: If you try to same something using a name that has already been assigned, you will be prompted to overwrite the existing files. This will completely replace the existing saved files.
To use an existing template, run
re use NAME_OF_TEMPLATE
This will copy all of the files associated with that name to the current directory. For example, to create a new web app one might use
re use WebApp
Boom! All your files are magically there. You can get started on the fun stuff. If your template happens to include a file or directory that already exists in the directory you're trying to use it in, Recycle will ask if you want to skip that file or directory or overwrite the one that exists.
You can list all the templates you have with
re list
No explanation needed, hopefully
You can delete a template with
re delete NAME
As expected, this is permanent and cannot be undone.
You can change where recycle stores your templates by setting the RECYCLE_TEMPLATE_DIR
environmental variable. The default is ~/.recycle/. You can view the currently used directory
with
re location
- v1.1.0 Added support for globbing and configuring the recycle directory.
- v1.0.0 Initial release of Recycle
Special thanks to all those who have contributed to this project!
Feel free to contribute. All I ask is that you adhere to the existing style, which, thanks to @ctk3b now conforms to the PEP8 guidelines. All pull requests should be based on the 'master' branch.
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Developed by William Ganucheau. Released under the MIT License.