How to edit existing VS Code Snippets

Question

Is there a way to remove or edit some of the default code snippets in Visual Studio CODE ?

For example when i type req+TAB i need require not requ

Answer 1

On my Windows installation the default/built-in JavaScript snippets are located in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\extensions\javascript\snippets\javascript.json

I renamed that snippet to "logx" (requires admin privileges to modify the file) and restarted vsCode and now have just my user "log" snippet.

There are some threads about this on the issue tracker -

• https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10565
• https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/48315