"Insert Snippet" from command panel does not work when language mode is Azure Resource Manager Template

1. Open an azuredeploy.json with a valid template, so that the language is set to Azure Resource Manager Template (or manually set the language mode)
2. CTRL-SHIFT-P -> “Insert Snippet”

The list of available snippets is blank:

Reproduce on 0.11 and 0.12. 0.10 seems to be working correctly (shown below):

[StephenWeatherford]

If the description wasn’t being filtered by at all, I’m confused as to how arm-vm-windows-diagnostics was prompted by “extension” in 0.12 🤔.

I already had the name in the filter text, just not the description. Name is “Windows VM Diagnostics Extension”

I tried adding the name to the label directly, but it’s too busy. We’ll close for now, given the fix for description, and see if anyone else comments on it. Thanks again!

[tobz1000]

BTW, have you seen the “Insert Item…” context menu?

I hadn’t! Good to know about it as another option.

1a) Add a “browse…” to the completions list which would bring up a dialog similar to that from VS Code

If this opened a larger snippet-like panel, I would welcome it - but I suppose others might feel it’s superfluous.

1b) Show the snippet description instead of the prefix I hesitated to do that since some users might be used to the previous prefixes, but I’m inclined to change it (I could still add the prefixes to the filter search)

I agree that it would be best to keep the short names visible for the same reason - and additionally, it allows people to learn shortcuts for resources etc. that they frequently use.

Personally not convinced this one makes a difference. You can type “virtualne” or even “vn” and intellisense finds “virtual network”.

You’re probably right, I just have to get used to not typing spaces for fuzzy search.

I’ve added the description to the filter text so this should work in the next version.

If the description wasn’t being filtered by at all, I’m confused as to how arm-vm-windows-diagnostics was prompted by “extension” in 0.12 🤔.

Regardless, that sounds great; thanks for helping me out, I trust whatever you decide is best. Feel free to close now, or leave it open if you plan to make an additional related change.