[question] 🤔 can we use VS Code user code-snippets?

[2nthony]

I created a bulk of code-snippets when I was using vscode, the path is: ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/snippets/*.code-snippets

So, can I load these code-snippets via this plugin? I've read the doc, but I didn't see any guide for this(maybe I missed).

here is the vscode snippet template:

{
	// Place your global snippets here. Each snippet is defined under a snippet name and has a scope, prefix, body and 
	// description. Add comma separated ids of the languages where the snippet is applicable in the scope field. If scope 
	// is left empty or omitted, the snippet gets applied to all languages. The prefix is what is 
	// used to trigger the snippet and the body will be expanded and inserted. Possible variables are: 
	// $1, $2 for tab stops, $0 for the final cursor position, and ${1:label}, ${2:another} for placeholders. 
	// Placeholders with the same ids are connected.
	// Example:
	// "Print to console": {
	// 	"scope": "javascript,typescript",
	// 	"prefix": "log",
	// 	"body": [
	// 		"console.log('$1');",
	// 		"$2"
	// 	],
	// 	"description": "Log output to console"
	// }
}

[L3MON4D3]

Yeah, do you have the package.json accompanying them? Pass the path to the directory it's in to luasnip.loaders.from_vscode.load (see readme, or search for it in DOC.md), that should do it

[2nthony]

OK, now works according to the doc.

---

It seems can not work like this:

~/.config/nvim/my-snippets/package.json
~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/snippets/dropcode.code-snippets

-- luasnip.lua
require("luasnip.loaders.from_vscode").lazy_load({
  paths = {
    "./my-snippets", 👈
  }
})

// my-snippets/package.json
{
  "name": "my-snippets",
  "contributes": {
    "snippets": [
      {
        "language": [
          "all"
        ],
        "path": "~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/snippets/dropcode.code-snippets" 👈
      }
    ]
  }
}

[hinell]

@2nthony I've two questions:

1. Are scope fields explicitly supported?
2. Does the "package.json#language" field affects the scope field when snippets are loaded into luasnip engine?

Please, give answers in docs, thanks!

[2nthony]

@hinell

1. I didn't see it works.(if I do scope in javascript, it will still have the snippet in vue file)
2. not sure

[leiserfg]

We don't support .code-snippets files as of now (mostly because I don't use vscode so I forgot (or didn't know about) them. But adding them should be quite easy, a PR will be appreciated 😃

[2nthony]

Supported actually by adding ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/snippets/package.json and do some figure.

[hinell]

The problem is that I have snippets for various different, but similar languages: javascript,typescript,javascriptreact,typescriptreact in one place that I would like to import into luasnip.

@leiserfg If I have time on hands!