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tkneisly

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  1. +1 for this. 

     

    I have used EN a little bit for code snippets, but have mostly given up on it, partly because of the lack of syntax highlighting. I doubt I would write my code snippets in Evernote, I am too comfortable with Textmate for that, but it could be nice place to dump and search for the snippets – rather than the long txt files I use for snippets now.

     

    I completely agree.  Most of the snippets I would put into Evernote would be entered by copy/paste, but native support for highlighting and formatting would mean that I could update my snippets directly in Evernote on the fly.

  2. I'm a developer and I love my code snippets libraries.  However, my snippets are all over the place -- in local files, in Dropbox, in Google Drive, on Github, on USB thumb drives, etc.  It's a chore keeping up with them.

     

    I've used some code library apps on OS X and Windows.  They're ok.  Some of them even backup to cloud services.  None of the good ones are cross-platform though, so you end up using the app on one system, but rewriting files on the other.

     

    This seems silly to me.  I'd like to use Evernote as a code snippets library because I use Evernote everywhere.  It already has all the features I would want.  I could tag my snippets, keep them in folders, search my library, share my snippets and access them everywhere.

     

    The only thing missing are the most important features:  Auto-formatting and Syntax Highlighting.

     

    There are plenty of open-source tools for doing this on the web.  SyntaxHighlighter by Alex Gorbatchev is one of them.  Even this forum has very basic support for embedding code into a note.  See?

    <div id="example" class="code"><p>Some not-so-beautifully formatted code.  But it's a start.</p></div>

    The most practical implementation would be a button somewhere in the editor.  Maybe next to the highlighter icon, or include it in the Justification drop-down.

     

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    In any case, please consider it because it would be amazing.

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