How to remove IntelliSense suggested snippets introduced by extension (or built-in)

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Normally, I want to see suggested IntelliSense snippets when typing and this works nicely. However, some extensions I installed introduce a lot of snippets I will never use and they bloat the IntelliSense suggested list.

I found no way so far to remove/disable snippets coming from an extension. Is there a way to do this?

Mark · Answer 1 · 2020-11-07T01:56:08.090

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Coming in v1.52 is the ability to disable snippets, see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/10565#issuecomment-721832613. But you have to do it on a per-snippet basis which could be helpful if you just wanted to disable seeing certain snippets. The snippets won't show in the intellisense suggestions but can still be accessed through the Command Palette/Insert Snippet command.

Which is also where you go to remove them from appearing in the suggestions.

edited Nov 07 '20 at 01:56

answered Nov 04 '20 at 22:45

Mark

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This will work, thanks. Where is the information about disabled snippets stored? – Giuseppe Oct 31 '22 at 14:34
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/userdefinedsnippets#_can-i-remove-snippets-from-intellisense – Mikol Graves Mar 24 '23 at 11:49

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 05 '22 at 18:19

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To remove all suggestion use "editor.snippetSuggestions": "none" in the settings.json

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answered Jan 05 '22 at 15:16

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 14 '20 at 22:17

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There is no direct way to do this in VSCode unless the extension provides you an option to disable the snippets from it. However, I use an extension to manage all the snippet sets that are active in a workspace.

Control Snippets is the extension.

answered Jun 14 '20 at 22:17

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This is also a good answer, if you do not want to change the snippets specifically or turn off a subset per extension. Which is what I needed anyway at the moment – Ev0oD Jun 14 '20 at 22:21
Quote from the extension's readme: _"If you're in **Windows**, you have to **run VS Code as administrator** to use this extension"_. – Wenfang Du Sep 13 '21 at 23:07

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 13 '21 at 23:42

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Alright, found a way to do this.

Go to the folder where your extensions are installed for vscode.
Find the folder for extension that adds the snippets (if you are not sure which one does it, peek the snippet in IntelliSense suggest list - the description will have the extension name in parenthesis at the end, some snippets are from built-in extensions).
Rename snippets.json to _snippets.json, or just modify the file to contain only snippets you are interested in.
Disable extension, reload vs code, enable the extension.

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"_Rename snippets.json to \_snippets.json_" Note: this approach could break some extensions from working. – Wenfang Du Sep 13 '21 at 23:48

How to remove IntelliSense suggested snippets introduced by extension (or built-in)

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