How to activate Markdown user snippets in Visual Studio Code?

Question

User Snippets are an awesome feature of Code, however, I can't get them to work for Markdown files. A markdown.json file exists and is editable, but I can't get snippets defined in that file to activate (using Tab like for other languages). Is there a different activation method for these snippets or are they just not supported yet?

EDIT: Here's the contents of the markdown.json file just in case I'm doing something wrong there.

{
    "Markdown comment": {
        "prefix": "comment",
        "body": [
            "<!--- \n --->"
        ],
        "description": "A Markdown comment"
    }
}

Wosi · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-22 14:19:10Z

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Open the editor
Go to File -> Preferences -> User Snippets
Select Markdown. The file C:\Users\YOU\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\snippets\markdown.json will be opened
Paste your snippet into the file and save it
From now on you can use the snippet in all .md files.

In case the snippet suggestion doesn't popup when you type "comment" then you should type CTRL + Space to force it.

answered Sep 22, 2015 at 14:19

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Joe Martella Over a year ago

Thanks. I think it was the CTRL + Space that made it register for me. That was the step I was stuck on. Thanks very much!

propoba Over a year ago

for mac users, the ctrl+space shortcut for autocomplete in vscode is option+esc

Fasih Burak · Accepted Answer · 2023-07-28 17:10:28Z

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Open VS Code
On the top left File -> Preferences -> Settings
In the settings search bar type @lang:markdown quicksuggestion
Change the value of other to on if it is set to off

Alternatively, after step 2 above, you can search for quicksuggestion in the search bar and then scroll down a little. There you will see the markdown section among others (like dockercompose, dockerfile, JSON, jsonc etc. in my case). Clicking the markdown section will take you to step 4 above.

answered Jul 28, 2023 at 17:10

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izkeros Over a year ago

This setting is present in both User and Workspace tab of Markdown settings. I was able only to modify (other->on) in the Workspace settings but it works.

junming zheng · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-11 03:04:11Z

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https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/26108

in case you mean no popup quick suggestion, the link is the cure.

"editor.quickSuggestions": true

add this to user setting then you should be able to see the popup snippet suggestions

answered Jun 11, 2018 at 3:04

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Yao Over a year ago

Adding this to user settings.json works: "[markdown]": { "editor.quickSuggestions": true }

propoba Over a year ago

omg, i finally found a helpful method for me to use a snippet with a trigger, thx so much!!!

SSlinky Over a year ago

The settings seems to have changed to "[markdown]": { "editor.quickSuggestions": { "other": "on" }}. The toggles for comments and strings can usually be left off.

Yeoman · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-03 12:56:49Z

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https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1617#issuecomment-166999086

Full extensions get auto (7x24) completion by default (e.g. latex, cake), some built-in extensions like Markdown do not.

You have to type CTRL + Space to force it.

answered Mar 3, 2017 at 12:56

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