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I'm looking for a good code snippet manager, with syntax highlighting and search capabilities. Another important feature is the capability of changing the code area background color. I have tested some Adobe Air apps that had white background everywhere, which hurts my eyes.

I'm using KDE btw. I use Kate for coding, but I don't like it's snippet plugin.

andrewsomething
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lovinglinux
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If you're working in python, Acire is a good choice.

acire

First, you need to install the Python Snippets library

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:python-snippets-drivers/python-snippets-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-snippets

Then you can install Acire itself:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:acire-team/acire-releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install acire
andrewsomething
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I'm using Eclipse, which has a really nice snippet manager, with support for variables and drag-and-drop.

lovinglinux
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instead of kate i recommend you Gvim and the SnipMate plugin, it's highly customizable, and really easy to use. Greetings

forellana
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You should try Code Barrel. It is cloud based so you can get your snippets anywhere. Oh, and it's free.

keird
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This is old, but I thought i'd add: http://code.google.com/p/snippely/

I hate AIR apps, but this one was an exception. It's well designed and works well.

Oscar Godson
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If you're still looking for a good snippet manager tool, may I recommend QSnipps. It's cross-platform, has syntax highlighting, supports database share across all your computers.. etc.

Give it a try at: http://www.qsnipps.com/

Gabi
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For the benefit of others, try gistboxapp, this is an extension for Chrome. You can use this in any platform. It is very light.

hg8
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lonestar
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I recommend Molimentum Quick (disclaimer: I'm the founder). It's available for Ubuntu. You can insert code snippets with ease with some shortcuts (check out the "smart insert" feature in docs). You can then click a shortcut, search, and it's copied to the clipboard. It supports syntax highlighting and because of the versatile design, it works in every editor. It also supports a dark theme.

benjamtech
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Use a post-it application, like TomBoy or GNote. It's light and nice and stays in the panel at the top.

Raphael Jolivet
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I would recommend Snip2Code - http://www.snip2code.com.

It allows the user to collect, organize and share code snippets, from the web site as well as directly within the preferred IDE (Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Notepad++) or through the native apps for Windows8 and Mac OS X.

Check it out!

Cristiano Ghersi
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Well Here are Some Really good , Colur full and light softwares: bluefish gedit(comes with default geany emacs qt creator and many more

user49557
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