Manta's Hot Snippet

Hot Snippet is a Visual Studio Code extension that helps quickly insert user-defined snippets.

Quick start

1. Define your snippet normally according to https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/userdefinedsnippets

{
  "function": {
    "prefix": "fx",
    "body": [
      "function($1) {",
      "\t$0",
      "}"
    ]
  }
}

2. Type the prefix, such as fx and immediately follow by a SPACE on your keyboard.
3. Expect the prefix to be replaced with the matching snippet.

Advanced usage

This extension aims to solve the problem that adding a snippet from IntelliSense menu is too slow to show up. Developers who have fast-typing pace might get annoyed by the slowness of IntelliSense menu, especially in a big repository.

As soon as the extension is activated, it automatically sets editor.snippetSuggestions to "off" at user-level settings. This is to avoid redundant snippet suggestions offered by IntelliSense menu.

The extension reads your global-scoped and project-scoped snippets and monitors your keystrokes; whenever the key sequence matches the prefix defined in the user snippets (File > Preferences > User Snippets) followed by a SPACE key, it replaces the prefix with the matching snippet.

The TextMate snippet syntax $TM_SELECTED_TEXT will not work with this extension because you cannot have text selections while typing a prefix at the same time. Therefore, $HS_SELECTED_TEXT variable is introduced instead.

Below is an example of how to create a snippet for JavaScript.

{
  "const": {
    "prefix": "cs",
    "body": "const "
  },
  "log": {
    "prefix": "lg",
    "body": "console.log($HS_SELECTED_TEXT)"
  }
}