VSCode same Snippet with different placeholder

Question

"test": {
        "prefix": "test",
        "body": "${1:hello} ${1:world}"
    }

Expected Result:

hello world

Current Result:

hello hello

I am trying to create snippet with same index and different placeholder but second placeholder change to first one when snippet called.

Case Scenario:

If I remove hello then world should be removed as well and If I don't change default hello then tabstop should goto next world. Then If I change world, hello shouldn't be effected.

This work great with Atom See this youtube video but not with vscode !!!

You only have one tabstop so there is no going to the "next" `world`. I would say that using two different default placeholders for the same tabstop is unsupported. I could be wrong. Can you make animated gif showing the Atom behaviour? — Mark, Oct 16 '19 at 20:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 02 '19 at 06:38

I figured it out myself at last, here it is,

"test": {
        "prefix": "test",
        "body": [
            "${1:hello} I am good",
            "how are ${1/^(?!\\s*$).+/world/}",
        ]
    },

$1 is hello and replace second clone with world which is also at $1, if no hello then no world as well.

VSCode same Snippet with different placeholder

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