microsoft / microsoft/vscode-cpptools

Please add snippet editing to this extention

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Feature Request Feature: Auto-complete help wanted Language Service
Dominant language
TypeScript
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Description

Type: LanguageService

It would be really useful to be able to tweak the snippets to my liking in a text file. I personally have minor formatting tweaks that I'd like to do like adjusting the position of the first curly bracket after for and having **env in the main function. I'd prefer not to have duplicates in the context menu either.

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Research direction

Review the existing issues and documentation in the repository's Documentation directory, then inspect how the extension currently provides language snippets and context-menu entries. The change is complete when users can edit snippets in a text file, apply formatting preferences such as brace placement and main-function arguments, and avoid duplicate context-menu entries.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp, typescript
Domain
developer-experience, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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