By default, intellisense / quick suggestions will not be triggered inside of a snippet. To enable them set “editor.suggest.snippetsPreventQuickSuggestions”: false true is the default. Editor > Suggest: Snippets Prevent Quick Suggestions in the Settings UI.
Try this: “test”: { “prefix”: “test”, // “body”: “${1} -> ${1/(.*)/${1:/upcase}/} > ${1/(.*)/${1:/downcase}/}” // simpler version below works too “body”: “${1} -> ${1/(.*)/${1:/upcase} ${1:/downcase}/}” } You need to hit Tab to apply the transformation.
If you are here looking for a way to change the order of the symbols list for the breadcrumbs (as I was), you can do that via breadcrumbs.symbolSortOrder setting (in Visual Code > Settings).
You can define the body of your snippet as an array of strings, each beginning on a new line. Like this: “Create for loop”:{ “prefix”: “mkfor”, “body”:[ “for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++)”, “{“, ” //code goes here”, “}” ], “description”: “Creates a for loop” } or if you install Easy Snippet Maker … Read more