Feature request: Snippets plugin subtitle display snippet text instead of "Text snippet"

[adomasven]

Hi. In the past I had my own version of a snippet plugin that I didn't bother to update to the newer version of Albert. One thing I had implemented which was useful was the subtitle displayed the snippet text so you could figure out if you're grabbing the correct snippet at a quick glance in case you forgot its title. Could this be added?

[ManuelSchneid3r]

This is cumbersome sinces it will always face limitations.

How to inline? You will never see the entire snipptet. Besides every query would have to read all query files or otherwise all snipped would have to be hold in memory.

Multiline descriptions? Opinionated. Besides it probably dramatically hits performance if your first key press has to calculate the visual length of the entire list (currently the layout is optimized using identical item heights).

Neither is acceptable imho.

Well we could make the trigger query handler return different items containing the single line preview.

Actually I'd rather wait for a feature on the todo list: a details view. thats actually one of the next things going to happen I guess. Such that you could take a quick glimpse holding alt or such.

Closing this since I dont really see a proper solution. Ping me again if we have the details view.

[adomasven]

This is cumbersome since it will always face limitations.

Perfect is the enemy of good!

How to inline? You will never see the entire snipptet. Besides every query would have to read all query files or otherwise all snipped would have to be hold in memory.

Hold the first 150 (or however many fill the subtitle line) characters of each snippet in memory.

Multiline descriptions? Opinionated. Besides it probably dramatically hits performance if your first key press has to calculate the visual length of the entire list (currently the layout is optimized using identical item heights).

Displaying the first line at least for my, but presumably many purposes is enough information to discern snippets.

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I still think this is a feature request that can be implemented to dramatically improve the snippets plugin usability with current Albert capabilities. Are you 100% not considering this?

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Something like this? Simplified string truncated to 100 chars.

[adomasven]

Yep, this is exactly what I'm looking for.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

albertlauncher/plugins@7c995cb

[adomasven]

Thank you! Awesome project!

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Thank you 😉👍