[MonoDevelop] Announcing CodeLibrary for MonoDevelop

[Anirudh]

Hi Folks,

I used to have a serious problem remembering how I did certain things
with the API - (deserialization, GTK Treeviews, etc). I used to refer
to my old code, which became troublesome fast. That's why I decided to
write CodeLibrary - a snippet management system - as an AddIn for
MonoDevelop. With CodeLibrary you can quickly save some bit of code
that you're writing and share it across projects. Inspiration also
came from the Acire [1] and the Vala Code[2] efforts.

Here are a couple of screenshots of CodeLibrary in action. To create a
new snippet, simply select some text in your editor, and click the
"Add" button. That will automatically get pasted in to the snippet
editor.
1. The main CodeLibrary view, which is implemented as a Pad in MonoDevelop.
http://i.imgur.com/nnbN0.png
2. The window to enter a new snippet:
http://i.imgur.com/oxMsM.png

Installing:
1. If you are running a trunk build, you can put the attached .dll in
main/build/Addins/MonoDevelop.CodeLibrary
2. If you are using an installed build, you can put it in
.config/addins/MonoDevelop.CodeLibrary/
3. If you want the source, the patch can be viewed here:
http://patchbin.com/SU0M2W It's MIT/X11 licensed and should apply
cleanly to src/

Sharing Snippets:
Originally, the focus was on sharing snippets. I'd imagined a fancy
webservice with REST based synchronization and couchdb based
replication of the snippet database, but that's all been torn down
into a much simpler and more sensible solution.
There's a folder "~/.config/MonoDevelop/codelibrary/community", which
can just contain a clone of a svn/git repository of snippets submitted
by community members. Right now, I hope to finalize the format first.

Known bugs:
Lots of em

Please try it and provide feedback.

Thanks,
Anirudh

[1]  - www.jonobacon.org/2010/01/12/acire-0-2-released/
[2] - http://code.valaide.org/

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