Snippet failing to function consecutively

[dburles]

Edit: I believe I have found the problem, typically one will realise it immediately after posting a bug report. It seems to be conflicting with an autocompletion that takes precedence:

What's the workaround for that? Should the snippet be prioritised?

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Possibly related to #11742

Behaviour:

I'm interested if anyone else can reproduce this as easily as I can, I haven't had time to dig into it any further but it's been a problem for quite a while.

This is the snippet:

	"Print to console": {
		"prefix": "log",
		"body": [
			"console.log($1);"
		],
		"description": "Log output to console"
	},

[ramya-rao-a]

#1952 tracks the same problem for emmet snippets.

[jrieken]

I actually cannot reproduce. @dburles Do you use tab completion to accept the suggestion? So type log and press Tab to insert or is this a selection from the suggestion widget?

[jrieken]

Like, do you have these settings?

"editor.tabCompletion": true,
"editor.quickSuggestions": false,

[jrieken]

Closing because a certain number of days have passed with a reply

[dburles]

Sorry @jrieken not sure how I missed the notifications for the previous messages. My settings are the inverse of what you mentioned.

[jrieken]

So this is what happens (assuming I correctly guessed this is JavaScript)

1. file is empty or at least doesn't use console.log yet
2. typing starts 24x7 IntelliSense (quickSuggestions: true) and further typing the word log selects the snippet with that prefix. Enter expands the snippet to console.log
3. Now the JavaScript language service sees log being used and adds it to the global symbol completion table which is appended to each and every set of completions (notice the icon)
4. now typing starts again, again with log. This time there is still the log-snippet but also the log symbol from the global table.
5. because snippet completions are scored lower than other completions the "new log completion" wins

Get around around this you can add this configuration "editor.snippetSuggestions": "top" which makes sure snippets always come on top on things. Or turn off quick suggestions and enable tab completions.

[dburles]

Thanks @jrieken, works like a charm!