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VS Code Snippets

Micro-templates for VS Code basically

How

Manage snippets with Snippets: Configure User Snippets

Launch snippet selector with C-SPC

Snippet Variables

The breakdown they use does keep the list from getting overwhelming. So I’ll just sing along.

Buffer, workspace, and clipboard variables

Variable Value
TM_SELECTED_TEXT currently selected text if any
TM_CURRENT_LINE current line’s contents
TM_CURRENT_WORD word under cursor if any
TM_LINE_INDEX line number (zero-indexed)
TM_LINE_NUMBER line number (one-indexed)
TM_FILENAME current document filename
TM_FILENAME_BASE current document filename w/o extension
TM_DIRECTORY current document directory
TM_FILEPATH current document absolute path
RELATIVE_FILEPATH current document path relative to workspace
CLIPBOARD primary clipboard contents
WORKSPACE_NAME current workspace name
WORKSPACE_FOLDER current workspace / folder absolute path
CURSOR_INDEX cursor number (zero-indexed)
CURSOR_NUMBER cursor number (one-indexed)

Date and time variables

Variable Value
CURRENT_YEAR year as YYYY...
CURRENT_YEAR_SHORT year as YY
CURRENT_MONTH month as MM
CURRENT_MONTH_NAME full month name
CURRENT_MONTH_NAME_SHORT short month name
CURRENT_DATE day of the month as DD
CURRENT_DAY_NAME full name for day of the week
CURRENT_DAY_NAME_SHORT short name for day of the week
CURRENT_HOUR current hour as HH (24 hour)
CURRENT_MINUTE current minute as MM
CURRENT_SECOND current second as SS
CURRENT_SECONDS_UNIX seconds since the Unix epoch

Random value generation variables

Variable Value
RANDOM 6 random decimal digits
RANDOM_HEX 6 random hex digits
UUID version 4 UUID

Language-appropriate comment generation variables

Variable Value
BLOCK_COMMENT_START block comment start for buffer language
BLOCK_COMMENT_END block comment end for buffer language
LINE_COMMENT line comment start for buffer language

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Added to vault 2024-01-23. Updated on 2024-01-26