Manta's Hot Snippet

Hot Snippet is a Visual Studio Code extension that helps inserting user-defined snippets in a blazing fast way.

The problem with Visual Studio Code built-in snippets via IntelliSense menu is too slow to show up. Users who are typically type quickly will get annoyed by the slowness of IntelliSense menu, especially in a big repository.

Basic usage

As soon as the extension is activated, it automatically sets editor.snippetSuggestions to "off". Your key strokes are being monitored; whenever the key sequence matches the prefix defined in the user snippets (File > Preferences > User Snippets) and followed by Space (or Enter key, if editor.acceptSuggestionOnEnter is set to "on" or "smart"), it quickly inserts the matching snippet without waiting for IntelliSense menu.

For example, given the below JavaScript snippet template.

{
  "const": {
    "prefix": "cs",
    "body": "const "
  },
  "function": {
	"prefix": "fx",
	"body": ["function($1) {", "\t$0", "}"]
  },
  "log": {
	"prefix": "lg",
	"body": "console.log($1)$0"
  }
}

You can quickly type cs, fx, and lg to generate const, function, and console.log() respectively.

Note that if the delay between each of your key sequence is longer than editor.quickSuggestionsDelay, the snippet will not be triggered.