Allow snippets to target standard token types

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• VSCode Version:Version: 1.48.2
• OS Version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19041

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open settings.json file and set “editor.quickSuggestions”: { “comments”: false }
2. Open any javascript file and start typing a comment with “//”
3. When you press the period key, the snippet window pops up.

I’ve tested this with commenting out all of my custom snippets and this problem is fixed. I’m not sure if this feature was intended but more I think of it, I doubt that it was intended so I’m posting it here as a bug.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

[jrieken]

Internally, we have standard token types, namely comment, string, regex, and everything else. We should extend snippets so that they can enumerate those token types and for instance say they don’t want to work in comments.

[hiredtocode]

@jrieken Just an update: It seems like this happens in strings as well even if I set the settings to: “editor.quickSuggestions”: { “strings”: false }

So for example: When I’m in let say function and returning a string. Inside the quotes if I type . or ! it gets triggered.