Language snippets for use with vim-cheat.
Keep the following suggestions in mind when creating snippets:
The primary goal of vim-cheat is not to save keystrokes, but rather to lessen the mental effort required to complete a task. With that said, don't constrain your snippets in arbitrary ways, like "one function per snippet". Write as much code as it takes to document a task.
Recalling programming solutions is hard, but deleting boilerplate is easy. Ensure that your snippets contain the information you need, and work to sever your reliance on search engines.
With that said, do strive for brevity where possible. As an example, prefer using descriptive variable and function names over code comments.
Tag snippets with whichever "keywords" you might enter into a search-engine when researching a problem. Use synonyms as necessary.
Perhaps you're creating a snippet about establishing a database connection. How might you tag it? Perhaps:
connectioncreatedatabasedbestablishopen
Liberal tagging increases the likelihood that you're able to find a snippet when you need it.
Should you also tag the snippet above with connect? No. Be mindful of
substrings.
The purpose of tagging snippets is to give fzf text to match against. That
being the case, avoid using tags that are substrings of other tags. Given that
connect is a substring of connection, the former will naturally match the
latter, and thus needn't be applied as a tag.
Use the same tags for the same tasks when writing snippets for multiple languages. Doing so will allow you to develop a "meta-language" that persists across language boundaries.