Snipper - VS Code Extension

This is a vscode extension that allows you to access your snippets from the command palette.

Usage

vscode command

• Snipper: Open your snippet list in the command palette (based on the programming language of the current file)
• Snipper Update: Reload your snippet list from the url in the configuration

Configuration

You can replace the file containing the default snippet list with your own. Your file must be a json file containing an array of snippet objects and It should follow the snippet format guideline describe in the Snippet format section. If you want a example, you can check the default snippets file.

To do this, in vscode press Ctrl + Shift + P, Then search for "Open User Settings (JSON)".
This command will open your vscode configuration file, and you'll need to add to it:

    "snipper": {
        "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arzeo68/snippet/master/snippet.json"
    }

Contribution

Features

You can contribute to this extension by adding new features or fixing bugs. To do so, you can fork this repository and create a pull request.

Snippets

You can also contribute by adding new snippets to the snippets repository. To do so, you can create a pull request on it. Please follow the snippet format.

Snippet format

{
	"label": "Snippet name",
	"description": "Snippet description",
	"language": "programming language",
	"body": [
		"snippet body"
	],
}

Language

The language field determines the programming language of the snippet. It is used to filter the snippet list in the command palette.

• If you want your snippet to be available in multiple languages, you can separate them with a comma.

Variables

In the snippet body, you can use the following variables:

• $1, $2, ...: tab stops
• $0: final cursor position
• $CURRENT_YEAR, $CURRENT_YEAR_SHORT, $CURRENT_MONTH, $CURRENT_DATE, $CURRENT_HOUR, $CURRENT_MINUTE, $CURRENT_SECOND: date variables
• $TM_FILENAME, $TM_FILENAME_BASE, $TM_DIRECTORY, $TM_FILEPATH: file variables
• $CLIPBOARD: clipboard content
• $WORKSPACE_NAME: workspace name
• $WORKSPACE_FOLDER: workspace folder
• ... and all the others default vscode variables

Future features

• [ ] Add a way to add snippets from the extension
• [ ] Add a way to edit snippets from the extension
• [ ] Add a way to delete snippets from the extension
• [ ] Add a way to add snippets to all languages

Known issues

• If you are using Github to host your json file, It may take up to 5 minutes to update the snippet list after you pushed your changes because GitHub serves "raw" pages with Cache-Control: max-age=300.