Wrap Selection Snippet on Visual Studio Code (vscode)

Question

I want to create an snippet when triggered it will surround the given text. Currently my snippet is:

{ 
  \"Function Creator Helper\": {
    \"prefix\": \"_w         


        

Answer 1

The currently selected text is exposed as ${TM_SELECTED_TEXT}, not $TM_SELECTED_TEXT.

edit: As commented below, this is not the case for this particular use-case