How to add common language snippets in Visual Stud

Question

In official vscode documentation i have seen that is possible to create custom snippets for each language. https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/customization/userdefinedsnippets

Ex. (languageId).json

But if i want to define snippets common for all languages? It is possible?

Answer 1

For completeness, global snippets are now supported in VS Code out the box.

Probably redundant information as the UI already guides you to it via the auto-generated global.code-snippets file when you open User Snippets in the menu.

However something I didn't know and landed on this answer looking to find is that you can also use the scope field to narrow global snippets to a specific subset of languages.

For example if I want a certain snippet available in both javascript and typescript, but only in javascript and typescript (because it's annoying if it also appears in other languages)

"My Snippet": {
  "prefix": "my-snippet",
  "body": [ "my snippet code..." ],
  "scope": "javascript,typescript" // define a strict subset of languages here
}

Answer 2

Common users snippets are currently not supported, but there is a VSCode issue tracking this feature request. Please let us know if this is something you would find useful.

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For completeness, VSCode extensions can register the same snippets for multiple languages but they must explicitly specify all languages they provide snippets for (there is no "language": "*" option).