Restricting snippets to contexts

[medwatt]

I'm just wondering if it is possible to make some snippets expand only inside certain contexts. For example, if I type "ahat" inside an equation block or inside $ $, I want it to become \hat{a} but if I type "that" anywhere outside an equation block, I don't want it to become \hat{t} but stay as it is. Is something like this possible?

Here's a page where someone does something like this, but in vim: https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/#context

[draivin]

Unfortunately it is blocked on a vscode issue, you can see some thoughts I had about this over here: #6.

[universemaster]

I have exactly the same use-case as @medwatt - implementing @gillescastel 's snippets in vscode.

Other extensions still use scopes via vscode-textmate see example here: restore-scope.

Can we not use the vscode-textmate module in this extension? Particularly interested in math scopes inside markdown.