Option to output all metadata from search?

[daniels]

Would it be possible to allow for optional output of the complete metadata in a structured format for the selected snippets after searching? (Personally I would prefer JSON for interoperability, but I guess TOML would be more in line with the project.)

I've just recently found and tried your tool and find it really nice to use. Besides a fast and nice fuzzy search, one thing I was hoping for when I started searching for a snippet manager was the ability to easily share snippets as nicely formatted markdown. The Gist-sync in pet is certainly useful, but maybe not for publishing.

If I could get complete output from search in a structured format, I could use pet in a pipeline where I implement the formatting myself.

[daniels]

I have looked at both fzf and peco now, and they both seem to allow for something like this, but each does it differently. I guess that makes it non-trivial to implement this with pluggable selectors.

For reference, here is what I found:

• Fzf has a --with-nth flag for specifying fields (by index) to display/search, hiding all other fields while still passing them through as output.
• Peco has a flag --null that allows a NUL-character to separate what is displayed/searched from what is output

[RamiAwar]

Hey @daniels, I think this can be a nice addition to the project!

Are you still interested in doing this? I'm down to help, I think easy sharing of snippets would be a nice new direction to explore with Pet.

[RamiAwar]

Also saw your other issue about adding the "format" of the snippet. I think this fits more into some generic metadata field. People might ask for storing more and more kinds of things in each snippet.

I want to try and avoid having to create any breaking changes in the saved snippet metadata, so I would want to go generic with this even for the MVP. What we can do is add a field called metadata that's structured, and has one subfield called format.

The thing is though, how many formats are you going to have realistically if you're using Pet? It's mostly "command line" snippets, not code snippets (like what https://github.com/maaslalani/nap does). It's probably just gonna be 'sh' :D But we have to also support windows so I'm still down to do this.