Manta's Hot Snippet

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

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.

Basic usage

As soon as the extension is activated, it automatically sets editor.snippetSuggestions to "off" at user-level settings. This avoids 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.

For example, given the below JavaScript snippet template, you can quickly type cs, fx, and lg to generate const, function, and console.log() respectively.

// See also https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/userdefinedsnippets
{
  "const": {
    "prefix": "cs",
    "body": "const "
  },
  "function": {
    "prefix": "fx",
    "body": ["function($1) {", "\t$0", "}"]
  },
  "log": {
    "prefix": "lg",
    "body": "console.log($0)"
  }
}