Custom Snippet Manager

🚀 A powerful snippet manager for VS Code with a modern UI, smart autocomplete, and multi-language support.

✨ Create, organize, and instantly reuse your code snippets — all in one place.

✨ Features

🧠 Smart Snippet Management

• Create, edit, and delete snippets with an intuitive UI
• Organize snippets by language or use them globally
• Automatically saved locally — no manual file handling needed

⚡ Powerful Autocomplete

• Trigger snippets instantly using prefixes
• Supports editing multiple positions with Tab navigation (using $1, $2, $0 placeholders)
• Language-aware suggestions
• Fuzzy matching for faster searching

🎨 Modern UI Experience

• Sidebar panel with search, filtering, and sorting
• Built-in code editor with syntax highlighting (CodeMirror 6)
• Fast fuzzy search powered by Fuse.js
• Seamless integration with VS Code theme

🌐 Multi-language Support

• Supports 22 languages: 简体中文 / 繁體中文 / English / 日本語 / 한국어 / Русский / Deutsch / Français / Español / Português / Italiano / Polski / Türkçe / Svenska / Dansk / Suomi / Nederlands / Čeština / Magyar / Українська / Română / Ελληνικά
• Easily switch between languages
• Language preference is saved automatically

📂 Folder Management

• Organize snippets into folders for better categorization
• Drag-and-drop to reorder folders
• Multi-select mode for batch folder deletion
• Default folder automatically collects uncategorized snippets

💼 Import & Export

• Export snippets by folder as JSON with metadata

• One-click backup all data as a ZIP file

• Secure import with validation

• Handle duplicates with:

  • Overwrite
  • Skip
  • Merge

🖱️ Save Code as Snippet (Highlight Feature 🔥)

• Select any code in the editor
• Right-click → Save directly to snippet library
• No need for copy & paste

📖 Usage The following demonstration uses the old interface.

➕ Create Snippets

Method 1: Right-click

Method 2: UI Panel

⚡ Use Snippets

Autocomplete

Right-click Menu

Quick Pick

✨ Snippet Syntax

console.log('$1', $2);$0

• $1 First cursor position
• $2 Next position (Tab to jump)
• $0 Final cursor position

⌨️ Commands & Shortcuts

🗂️ Supported Languages

Supports 50+ popular programming languages and file formats

💾 Data Storage

Snippets are stored in VS Code global storage:

• Windows: %APPDATA%\Code\User\globalStorage\custom-snippet-manager\
• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/globalStorage/custom-snippet-manager/
• Linux: ~/.config/Code/User/globalStorage/custom-snippet-manager/

📦 Installation

1. Open VS Code
2. Go to Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X)
3. Search Custom Snippet Manager
4. Click Install

🤝 Contributing

Issues and Pull Requests are welcome:

👉 https://github.com/merrick-shen/vscode-custom-snippet-manager

📬 Contact

For feedback, bug reports, or feature requests:

• Email: smh070912@gmail.com

📄 License

MIT License