Expand log to console.log()

[JosephTLyons]

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In JetBrains’ tooling, in JS and TS, you can type log then hit tab and it will expand to console.log(). It’s a small thing, but it’s so nice. We should see if we can add this feature. Maybe this calls for some generic system that allows you to define, per language, maps that link some input text into an expanded form.

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[ushankax]

It is called "Live Templates" in IntellJ. Really useful thing, need it in zed

[Pringlers]

We need generalized version of this. So each user can add their own shortcut to boost productivity 🚀

[aexvir]

yep, live templates and postfixes are amazing features from the intellij platform, and if zed would implement something similar that would be an amazing productivity boost

I'm attaching a couple screenshots from both live templates, which can be invoked directly, or if there is a $SELECTION$ block they can also be used to wrap code in refactors; and postfix expressions, which allows configuring custom templates to replace the code when invoking .expression

@ushankax @Pringlers it would be nice to 👍🏻 this issue if you think this is a nice feature 🙂

[rkusa]

It might be possible to achieve this already with an LSP snippet, similar to https://github.com/zed-industries/feedback/issues/566#issuecomment-1273791513

[mediabeastnz]

Bumping as this is one little thing that makes me miss VSCode. It's just muscle memory but such a time saver!

[monarcode]

Waiting desperately for snippet support

[jhoonyKorolkov]

This little thing still doesn’t work, come on guys, we’re really looking forward to it)

[SomeoneToIgnore]

This is a part of #4611 actually and not sure how hard, but somebody have to work on this.

[JosephTLyons]

This week's release mentions how to configure this in the release notes for snippet support!

https://zed.dev/releases/stable/0.140.5

[bearfriend]

For anyone coming across this, the release notes are gone, but the Snippets docs have this exact request covered

[JosephTLyons]

Here are the release notes attached to the GitHub release: Zed.dev only goes back so far with the release history, but everything can be found in GitHub releases:

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/releases/tag/v0.140.5