How to activate Markdown user snippets in Visual Studio Code?

Question

User Snippets are an awesome feature of Code, however, I can't get them to work for Markdown files. A markdown.json file exists and is editable, but I can't get snippets defined in that file to activate (using Tab like for other languages). Is there a different activation method for these snippets or are they just not supported yet?

EDIT: Here's the contents of the markdown.json file just in case I'm doing something wrong there.

{
    "Markdown comment": {
        "prefix": "comment",
        "body": [
            "<!--- \n --->"
        ],
        "description": "A Markdown comment"
    }
}

Answer 1

• Open the editor
• Go to File -> Preferences -> User Snippets
• Select Markdown. The file C:\Users\YOU\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\snippets\markdown.json will be opened
• Paste your snippet into the file and save it
• From now on you can use the snippet in all .md files.

In case the snippet suggestion doesn't popup when you type "comment" then you should type CTRL + Space to force it.