osx-snip

Cool, that's a neat summary =). It was actually getting a bit confusing picking the "best" one. It seems like Mjolnir is the way to go. Also - on a sidenote - is https://github.com/sdegutis/osx-snip still going?

Yeah, option A can indeed be fast, responsive, and seem seamless. So let's do that. Hadn't seen http://robomongo.org/backlog before, thanks for the link. Let's move further discussion to the project's issues page: https://github.com/sdegutis/osx-snip/issues

In that case, how will it work with gists that have multiple files? Should it just assume that each "snippet"-gist only contains one file, where the name of the file is the name of the snippet, and ignore gists that contain multiple files? This seems the most intuitive way to go. EDIT: lets move discussion to the project's issues page: https://github.com/sdegutis/osx-snip/issues

Accessibility APIs may indeed be the limiting factor in this situation. The only way that I can currently see making this work is by manually sending "Cmd-C" and "Cmd-V" signals to copy/paste selections. Pasting a snippet would in fact just overwrite your clipboard with the contents of the snippet and then send the keyboard signal "Cmd-V" to paste it as if you did it yourself. It's hacky, but if you're okay with it ruining your clipboard on both save-snippet and paste-snippet actions, then it shouldn't be a problem. Option C is actually not much different from option A. In option C, it watches what you just typed, and finds the snippet with that name. But in option A, it pops up a window and lets you type the name, and selects one that matches (by substring comparison), and filters/selects it as you type. So actually not only is option A