SSMS Snippets and Shortcuts

Question

I'm using SSMS 2014. I am able to insert a snippet but they don't seem to respond to shortcuts (ie crproc[tab])

Is this feature known to work?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
 <CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
 <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
 <Header>
 <Title>prod1</Title>
 <Description>testing</Description>
 <Author> dale </Author>
 <SnippetTypes>
 <SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>
 </SnippetTypes>
 <Shortcut>crproc</Shortcut>
 </Header>
 <Snippet>
 <Declarations>
 <Literal>
 <ID>DatabaseName</ID>
 <ToolTip>Name of database.</ToolTip>
 <Default>DB</Default>
 </Literal>
 </Declarations>
 <Code Language="SQL">
 <![CDATA[
 ------------------------------------------------------
 -- FILENAME: Template-Expansion.snippet
 -- PURPOSE: Template for Expansion (Insert) snippets.
 -- AUTHOR: Ken O. Bonn
 -- DATE: May 15, 2013
 ------------------------------------------------------
 SET NOCOUNT ON;

 EXEC SP_HELPDB $DatabaseName$;

 ]]>
 </Code>
 </Snippet>
 </CodeSnippet>
 </CodeSnippets>

Answer 1

No, for some reason Microsoft seem to have no interest in actually implementing this feature, despite code snippets being totally useless without it (because of the number of mouse clicks and key presses you need to insert a snippet).

How many times a day do you type "SELECT * FROM..." or "SELECT TOP 10 * FROM "... etc..??! Very frustrating!

Even SSMS 2016 Release Candidate still does not support it.

"ApexSQL Complete" (a free tool) apparently will do it, but this does not support SSMS 2016 yet!