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Ability to add snippets

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c
Domain
desktop, tooling

Research direction

The issue does not name any files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing the existing project structure and how keyboard shortcuts and menus are implemented. Before coding, clarify the snippet format, editing and persistence behavior, shortcut choice, and the expected completion criteria.

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Description

Hello,

I have found this project searching for a Windows replacement of MacOS Clipy: https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy

clippy and Clipy seem to target pretty much the same population on different worlds, MacOS and Windows.
One killer feature of the Clipy is that one can also insert predefined snippets of text by invoking a secondary keyboard shortcut which pops up the snippets menu.

I wondered if this is possible also with Clipy, or if it can be considered as useful feature.

Thanks in advance for your reply

Dominant language
C
Stars
144
Forks
15
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