Enhancement: Type to Search for Snippets

[michaeltlombardi]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I've been adding the base Hugo snippets to my site in addition to my own custom snippets and the menu of available snippets is starting to get hard to navigate.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to be able to quickly search my snippets with either a fuzzy or simple match when trying to add a snippet to my content.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Perhaps an alternative, but more likely a separate feature request, I think it would be useful to have a command available to choose and insert a snippet from the command palette. Being able to type ctrl+shift+p -> insert snippet -> enter -> mermaid -> enter to go from my markdown to the insertion modal would be less disruptive for me, though I expect more users will benefit from the searchable snippet view on the dashboard.

Additional context

I think the unused space below the dashboard tab headers and left of the Create new snippet button could potentially be used for this functionality without being too intrusive.

[estruyf]

Makes sense! Should indeed become available in the UI. I would also say that when you click on the insert snippet action, the dashboard loads, and the search input is focused for you to instantly start searching through your snippets.

command available to choose and insert a snippet from the command palette

A command already exists for inserting snippets when working on a file: frontMatter.insertSnippet (Front Matter: Insert snippet into your content) - this is the command used behind the scissor action.

For each available command in VSCode, you can register your own keybindings. In my case, I configured it to be shift+cmd+i.

There are no preset keybindings for Front Matter, as I like to give the user the option to do this. Although, it might be good that we highlight the ability to do so, as this is maybe not a lot of people know that these things can be done.

[estruyf]

I think this will help you out @michaeltlombardi - currently, the filtering is based on the snippet its title; should I include description as well?

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[michaeltlombardi]

I think matching description would be really good too! For first pass, I don't think weighting is important, just finding relevant snippets. This would really help! 💜