feat: add snippet quick-pick placeholders
Description
Adds placeholder text for user interactions with snippets, so the user knows what they are selecting.
@tvanderhelm will be interested in the UX ramifications of this work. I don't know what other flows lack user-visible text.
Related Issues
- Related to Snippets: add a loading indicator and cancellation (#1626) but does not completely fix it
- Related to chore: Fix capitalization on placeholder (!2049 - merged) where I asked if more placeholders could be added
- Related to Plan for migrating VS Code user documentation (#1530 - closed) which tracks the overall docs migration
How has this been tested?
Screenshots (if appropriate)
Create Snippet
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Create Snippet Patch
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What CHANGELOG entry will this MR create?
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fix:Bug fix fixes - a user-facing issue in production - included in changelog -
feature:New feature - a user-facing change which adds functionality - included in changelog -
BREAKING CHANGE:(fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change) - should bump major version, mentioned in the changelog -
None - other non-user-facing changes
Edited by Tristan Read













