In programming practice, "snippet" refers narrowly to a portion of source code that is literally included by an editor program into a file, and is a form of copy and paste programming. This concrete inclusion is in contrast to … See more

Snippet management is a text editor feature popular among software developers or others who routinely require content from a catalogue of repeatedly entered text (such as with source code or boilerplate). Often this feature is justified because the … See more

In addition to the basic management abilities described previously, snippet management features can be classified according to the scope of interactivity between snippets and the text editor or application that hosts them.
These snippet … See more

The most basic alternative to code snippets is subroutines in libraries. Subroutines can be incorporated into a reusable software library and shared between multiple programming projects.
Design patterns in object-oriented programming, and See more

Consider the process of swapping the values of two variables, x and y. Assuming weak typing and not being concerned about name collision, this is represented by the code:
When the snippet is inserted, the programmer is … See more

Placeholders are elements within a snippet that are left to be supplied by the user or other external process. The values for placeholders are not determined until the text of the … See more

For applications that support scriptable snippets, the range of supported programming features varies. The following … See more