Overview example of inserting a snippet

I tried to get your example of inserting a snippet within a macro to work without success. From VSCode extensions marketplace : macros. Your example:

And I have a macro that will select the word at my cursor, copy it, drop to a new line, and run that snippet to log the variable:

editor.action.addSelectionToNextFindMatch

`"macros": {
    "logCurrentVariable": [
    "editor.action.addSelectionToNextFindMatch",
    "problems.action.copy",

      {"command": "type", "args": {"text": "con"}}
  ]
}`

At the very least that must be missing an “insertSnippet” command? And there is no copy or paste? And the weird mention of “editor.action.addSelectionToNextFindMatch” seems out of place.

Might I suggest:

 "logCurrentVariable": [
      "editor.action.smartSelect.grow",
      "editor.action.clipboardCopyAction",
      "editor.action.insertLineAfter",
      {
        "command": "type",
        "args": {
          "text": "log"
        }
     },
    "insertSnippet",
    "editor.action.clipboardPasteAction"
  ]

which uses the following snippet (in VSCode) 👍

"Print to console": {
    "prefix": "log",
     "body": [
         "console.log('${TM_FILENAME}, line ${TM_LINE_NUMBER}   :  $1 = ' + $1);"
    ],
   "description": "Log output to console"
}

[lastobelus]

Ah! had the args to editor.action.insertSnippet wrong. Finally, this works:

    {
        "command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
        "args": {
            "name": "colo",
            "langId": "javascript",
        }
    },

[LeThiHyVong]

Change to "editor.tabCompletion": true and it works perfectly