Snippets

Use the {#action snippets::ConfigureSnippets} action to create a new snippets file or edit an existing snippets file for a specified scope.

The snippets are located in ~/.config/zed/snippets directory to which you can navigate to with the {#action snippets::OpenFolder} action.

Example configuration

{
  // Each snippet must have a name and body, but the prefix and description are optional.
  // The prefix is used to trigger the snippet, but when omitted then the name is used.
  // Use placeholders like $1, $2 or ${1:defaultValue} to define tab stops.
  // The $0 determines the final cursor position.
  // Placeholders with the same value are linked.
  "Log to console": {
    "prefix": "log",
    "body": ["console.info(\"Hello, ${1:World}!\")", "$0"],
    "description": "Logs to console"
  }
}

Scopes

The scope is determined by the language name in lowercase e.g. python.json for Python, shell script.json for Shell Script, but there are some exceptions to this rule:

To create JSX snippets you have to use javascript.json snippets file, instead of jsx.json, but this does not apply to TSX and TypeScript which follow the above rule.

Known Limitations

• Only the first prefix is used when an list of prefixes is passed in.
• Currently only the json snippet file format is supported, even though the simple-completion-language-server supports both json and toml file formats.

See also

The feature_paths option in simple-completion-language-server is disabled by default.

If you want to enable it you can add the following to your settings.json:

{
  "lsp": {
    "snippet-completion-server": {
      "settings": {
        "feature_paths": true
      }
    }
  }
}

For more configuration information, see the simple-completion-language-server instructions.