Code snippets do not always appear for insertion, depending on the cursor placement? #73644

vsfeedback · 2024-05-22T15:22:56Z

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[severity:It’s more difficult to complete my work]
There seems to be some logic that prevents certain code snippets from being suggested at various places in a document. I’d like to know if this is a bug or intentional and if intentional I’d like more information about this behavior or a way of controlling it because right now for me it limits how useful code snippets can be

I have created a snippet twc that inserts an extension method call .TagWithCallPath(cc,c)

It is intended to be used on a DbSet:

My snip has a pink arrow. The suggested snips are in yellow - as, is, switch, with

My snip is not suggested.

If I move the caret to placed after a { then the snip does appear and will insert:

Why does the snip show here, but not before?

If I press tab when the snip is not suggested, i get "as"

I understand the notion that some snips should be prevented in some places = it would be silly to write var ctor = and suddenly have a constructor appear in the middle of a method but if there is a logic that does something like that it is currently making some of my snippets unusable - how do I turn that off?

If there is no way of turning that off, I wish to raise a feature suggestion of "allow snips to be configured so that they can always be inserted"