Colin's Snippet Forge

Turn selected code into a clean VS Code workspace snippet without manually escaping JSON or rebuilding tab stops by hand.

Features

• Suggest snippet prefixes from the selected code and current language.
• Detect repeated identifiers and offer them as snippet placeholders.
• Preview generated snippet JSON in an unsaved editor.
• Save snippets to .vscode/colins-snippets.code-snippets or copy the JSON.
• Open the workspace snippet file whenever you need to review it.

Usage

Select code in an editor, then run Colin's Snippet Forge: Forge Snippet From Selection from the Command Palette or editor context menu.

Local Development

npm install
npm run build
npx @vscode/vsce package --allow-missing-repository