Using TM_SELECTED_TEXT in my custom snippets

Question

With the November 2016 (version 1.8) release of VSCode Snippet Variables are now supported, specifically TM_SELECTED_TEXT.

This makes me happy as I have used these h

Answer 1

using documentation from https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/userdefinedsnippets i was able to customize snippets, i am using 'surround with' extension and can put my own snippet into settings.json as follows:

"html_h3-name": {
  "label": "h3",
  "description": "wrap by h3 with , top",
  "snippet": "
$TM_SELECTED_TEXT\n\ttop\n
"

},

which takes highlighted code in VSCode and creates h3 header from it with a name link:

it converts  'aaa bbb ccc' to 
aaa bbb ccc
    top