arboard seems to do the right thing when it comes to X11 clipboard handling. Should allow replacing the current very ugly xclip/pbcopy hack in utils.rs. Also, replacing clipboard with arboard in tests/cli.rs should allow copy tests to run on Linux CI as well, which is ideal.

When editing an existing snippet (the-way search -> select -> shift+right), after confirming the other fields, the prompt says Code snippet (<RET> to edit in external editor). What is <RET> in this case? Return/enter appears to only submit the snippet as it is.

I have tried with $EDITOR both unset and set to vi.

first thank you! works great on my pc, tried building on aarch64 and as title says, it fails to build "skim", yet I can (and have) built & installed "skim" already.

Hello,

I know Windows is not supported yet. But I tried to make it work on WSL2 nonetheless.

I'm stuck on this issue:

> the-way cp 2
openssl x509 -noout -text -in
Error: Can't open display: (null)
Snippet #2 copied to clipboard

This happens every time the-way tries to copy stuff to the SYSTEM clipboard. I'm assuming it's because wsl2 cannot do it natively. WSL2 can use Windows binaries tho, as specified here

I am unsure why it tries to use a display. I hope anyone can shed some light about this.

search seems to work properly. Altough with the cmdsave function, I get the same issue after I use search.

❯ the-way search
find <path> -name <file>
✔ path · .
✔ file · '*.a'
Error: Can't open display: (null)
Snippet #1 copied to clipboard

Please let me know if you need further testing.

As a pet user, searching snippet contents/body & descriptions at the same time in the same fzf pane interactively helps me find the snippet I'm looking for faster. Sometimes I remember a part of the snippet contents and not the description, and vice versa.

So far I have been using (PR #68 that searches contents and descriptions, but it is not interactive. (afaik) there is no feature to perform an interactive grep on snippet contents.

What are your thoughts about adding such a feature?

When using the-way in the shell using the-way search, finding a snippet is very convenient, but then it gets copied to the clipboard.

I'd much prefer an option that would just output the snippet to stdout. That way I could bind the-way to some key combination in bash and then directly get the snippet on the command line, maybe even automatically pressing enter. That would probably require the interface of the-way to print to stderr.

Tried using the-way sync and pasting the Github token with gists enabled, but getting this returned:

Error: 0: SyncError: "422 {"message":"Validation Failed","errors":[{"resource":"Gist","code":"missing_field","field":"files"}],"documentation_url":"https://docs.github.com/v3/gists/#create-a-gist"}"

Suggestion: Make sure your GitHub access token is valid. Get one from https://github.com/settings/tokens/new (add the "gist" scope). Set it to the environment variable $THE_WAY_GITHUB_TOKEN

Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets.

Also added the token into a env var as suggested, but same error is thrown.

Running any commands gives me this error: Unsupported: cannot change the io buffer size across restarts. please change it back to 8388608.

I've tried deleting ~/.config/the-way to no avail. This is version 0.7.0 on NixOS.

Running the same command with backtrace set to full gives:

Error: 
   0: Unsupported: cannot change the io buffer size across restarts. please change it back to 8388608

  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BACKTRACE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
   1: color_eyre::config::HookBuilder::install::{{closure}}::h89493c7b19a69a32
      at <unknown source file>
   2: the_way::the_way::TheWay::start::hea72f08e14a0d57d
      at <unknown source file>
   3: the_way::main::ha4dc93d41b39356d
      at <unknown source file>
   4: std::rt::lang_start::{{closure}}::hf19916ed3db71252
      at <unknown source file>
   5: std::rt::lang_start_internal::h7d1b27a1580794aa
      at <unknown source file>
   6: main
      at <unknown source file>
   7: __libc_start_main
      at <unknown source file>
   8: _start
      at <unknown source file>

Thanks!

Hello! I've tried all built-in light themes and they all suffer same issue, that is poor readability of highlighted item in fuzzy pane. Following is InspiredGitHub theme, but others light themes have more or less same issue.

The database directory contains several files:

I want to sync/backup the database across several machines, which of these files are important enough needs to be backed up for it to work? My current guess is that db should be enough, but the snap.* and conf also seem important. blobs is currently empty.

Could you please explain what these files are? And for future users - maybe add a README.md to that directory to help guide people who'll wonder the same.

Hi! (me again) As a new user, seeing both add and cmd makes me think they are two different functions, but it appears they achieve the same thing, except that using cmd saves us one extra step as it automatically tags the language as 'sh', which is certainly nice to have, but not really a needed feature. To make better use of this function, seeing as they are shell commands, allow us to execute them directly or clip them, that way our snippets are snippets and our cmds are one-liners! On the same note, if they wasnt automatically tagged 'sh' anymore, cmds could be one-liners written in any non-compiled language, for example, I use this great one-liner as a quick way to setup python:

python3 -m ensurepip --default-pip && python3 -m pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel"

And this one sets up Perls better pkg manager:

curl -L https://cpanmin.us | perl - --sudo App::cpanminus

Would be nice to add these as cmds that I can execute directly, rather than copy and paste them back into the terminal to use. Currently, my one-liners are saved as aliases, which isnt good as they are rarely used yet sourced everytime I open a new shell, when I do finally need to use them, I need to dig through a huge page of aliases, with the-way, I wouldnt need to do that anymore, plus aliases dont have metadata like the-way provides! (title, tags, description etc). Thank you once again!

The following error while install via yay

Potential solution is adding a --locked flag to the cargo install command Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71332000/why-run-cargo-install-fails-with-error-edition-2021-is-unstable-though

Some of these, specifically those with serde crates, are easy to add as both import/export formats.

I primarily would like to have markdown and plaintext export.

sexps would be awesome too!

plaintext / markdown would be difficult to support as an import format, but easier for export. What would be the difference between plaintext and running the-way view?

It requires an index so I would need to write a for loop to get all the snippets out. I'd prefer to be able to just dump all the snippets to stdout or to dump snippets to stdout filtered by tags, etc... from the CLI directly.

I tried the-way view 14 but my cursor gets stuck. When I press Ctrl+d it kills the whole terminal:

I'm running the-way 0.15.0.

Originally posted by @jgarte in https://github.com/out-of-cheese-error/the-way/issues/127#issuecomment-1032193663

Here are some formats that might be relevant taken from jrnl for inspiration:

  --format TYPE         Display selected entries in an alternate format.
                        TYPE can be: boxed, dates, fancy, json, markdown, md,
                        pretty, short, tags, text, txt, xml, or yaml.
                        Optional parameters:

Not all apply but having yaml, markdown, xml, and plain text output of all or a selected range of snippets might be useful.

WDYT?

Pet seems to no longer be maintained and is plagued by bugs and lacks configuration. But one of it strength is the human readable snippets toml files that can be edited. I only use it for shell snippets, since docker is a nightmare. One of my use cases is actually editing the toml file directly in sublime for what I need.

Is there a way to do that now, or is that some extensive work?

Considering there appears to be PowerShell support (I know it's cross-platform now, but still) I'm surprised there's no Windows binaries available. Could you please add support for Windows?