VSCode User Snippet Variables

Links

• How to create a user snippet in VSCode - DEV.to
• Snippet Generator - a tiny React app to create Visual Studio Code , Sublime Text and Atom snippets.

Workspace Variables

The following workspace variables can be used:

• TM_SELECTED_TEXT The currently selected text or the empty string,
• TM_CURRENT_LINE The contents of the current line,
• TM_CURRENT_WORD The contents of the word under cursor or the empty string,
• TM_LINE_INDEX The zero index based line number,
• TM_LINE_NUMBER The one index based line number,
• TM_FILENAME The filename of the current document,
• TM_FILENAME_BASE The filename of the current document without its extensions,
• TM_DIRECTORY The directory of the current document,
• TM_FILEPATH The full file path of the current document,
• CLIPBOARD: The contents of your clipboard,
• WORKSPACE_NAME: The name of the opened workspace or folder.

The following time related variables can be used:

• CURRENT_YEAR The current year,
• CURRENT_YEAR_SHORT The current year’s last two digits,
• CURRENT_MONTH The month as two digits (example ‘07’),
• CURRENT_MONTH_NAME The full name of the month (example ‘July’),
• CURRENT_MONTH_NAME_SHORT The short name of the month (example ‘Jul’),
• CURRENT_DATE The day of the month,
• CURRENT_DAY_NAME The name of day (example ‘Monday’),
• CURRENT_DAY_NAME_SHORT The short name of the day (example ‘Mon’),
• CURRENT_HOUR The current hour in 24 hour clock format,
• CURRENT_MINUTE The current minute,
• CURRENT_SECOND The current second,
• CURRENT_SECONDS_UNIX The number of seconds since the Unix epoch.

The following comment variables can be used. They honour the syntax of the document’s language

• BLOCK_COMMENT_START: For example, <! in HTML,
• BLOCK_COMMENT_END: For example , > in HTML,
• LINE_COMMENT: For example, // in JavaScript.