Code snippets/template as in Eclipse

[Sandared]

It would be awesome to be able to create own code snippets/templates as in Eclipse, i.e. I type "fore" and then via autocomplete create a full foreach loop code fragment that lets me edit only the variable parts.
Not sure if this has been already resolved by #54

[akosyakov]

See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/userdefinedsnippets#_create-your-own-snippets

Theia is capable already to load snippets from a file:

theia/packages/monaco/src/browser/monaco-snippet-suggest-provider.ts

Line 118 in fbfc875

fromURI(uri: string | URI, options: SnippetLoadOptions): Disposable {

We need a command to allow a user to add new snippets in the global snippet file and code tracking changes to this file and updating snippet configurations.

[akosyakov]

PRs are welcomed if someone wants to have a look into it.

[marcdumais-work]

This extension looks promising (it's a bit old vs what's in the MS Marketplace):
https://open-vsx.org/extension/vscode-snippet/snippet

[MatthewKhouzam]

Would this be interesting for boilerplate issues like copyright headers?

e.g. I'm developing the Linux Kernel, I want to add a gpl2 preamble, would this help?

[marcdumais-work]

Yes, I think so .A given project could add their license header as a custom snippet, making it very easy to add it when creating a new file

[vince-fugnitto]

For additional information I believe the issue should track supporting user-defined snippets.

It seems as though snippets contributed by language-extensions (and others) are supported in the framework (ex: html doctype template), but we are still missing the ability to load *.code-snippets (like our copyright headers), and the snippets: configure user snippets command.