# JS editor code completion / templates
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/js-editor-code-completion-templates/20863
**Category:** General
**Created:** [26 January 2020 09:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/js-editor-code-completion-templates/20863 "2020-01-26T09:50:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@aolsendk](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/aolsendk)
#### Post date: [26 January 2020 09:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/js-editor-code-completion-templates/20863/1 "2020-01-26T09:50:35Z")
Hi all,
I am running NR v.1.0.3 and think im going crazy.
As far as i remember from earlier versions ~0.15-\>0.18, whenever i was editing javascript in the function node editor, i could press ctrl-space and get a dropdown with code-templates. Not just keywords, but full code templates with many examples of typical code patterns; for-loops, switch-structures ect.
I cannot find any hotkeys, documentation, config-settings, or anything in this regard. Also I cannot make Internet come up with any information on this.
Is my memory that bad, or is the function removed and nobody talks about it?
Regards
Anders
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### Author:  [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [26 January 2020 10:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/js-editor-code-completion-templates/20863/2 "2020-01-26T10:31:49Z")
You mean like this:
Works for me
NR: v1.0.3
node.js: v12.13.0
Check your keyboard??
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### Author:  [@aolsendk](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/aolsendk)
#### Post date: [26 January 2020 10:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/js-editor-code-completion-templates/20863/3 "2020-01-26T10:47:58Z")
That also works for me. I'm missing code templates. It used to be like for example when i type
swit\_\_\_
It came up with multiple prefilled codepattern suggestions like...
**switch( _expression_ ) {case _x_ :code block break;...**
I am almost 100% certain it worked like that "back in the days"
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [26 January 2020 11:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/js-editor-code-completion-templates/20863/4 "2020-01-26T11:19:13Z")
You mean this I think - the templates are provided via the library feature:
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### Author:  [@aolsendk](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/aolsendk)
#### Post date: [26 January 2020 11:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/js-editor-code-completion-templates/20863/5 "2020-01-26T11:38:19Z")
Thank you all for replying...
No i am not thinking of the library. It is called code templates in many editors. In Eclipse it is described here:
[https://www.tutorialspoint.com/eclipse/eclipse\_code\_templates.htm](https://www.tutorialspoint.com/eclipse/eclipse_code_templates.htm)
I am extremely sure it was a feature in earlier versions of node red. I think i will have to find an earlier version just to prove i am not loosing my mind 🙂
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### Author:  [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)
#### Post date: [26 January 2020 11:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/js-editor-code-completion-templates/20863/6 "2020-01-26T11:43:10Z")
> [@TotallyInformation](#):
>
> You mean this I think - the templates are provided via the library feature
No. @aolsendk is referring to the 'snippets' support in the editor.
I agree, the snippets aren't there in Node-RED 1.0. Snippets are still [enabled by default](https://github.com/node-red/node-red/blob/master/packages/node_modules/@node-red/editor-client/src/js/ui/editor.js#L2462) and the snippet files are all there - [node-red/packages/node\_modules/@node-red/editor-client/src/vendor/ace/snippets at master · node-red/node-red · GitHub](https://github.com/node-red/node-red/tree/master/packages/node_modules/%40node-red/editor-client/src/vendor/ace/snippets)
Ahhh - as I write this I realise what has happened. We introduced a custom version of the standard JavaScript mode for the Function node so it would be aware of the Node-RED specifics. But that mode doesn't include any snippets.
Please raise an issue and we can update the custom mode to include snippets.
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [26 January 2020 11:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/js-editor-code-completion-templates/20863/7 "2020-01-26T11:44:33Z")
> [@knolleary](#):
>
> No.
Haha, I don't think I ever even noticed them!! ☹
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### Author:  [@aolsendk](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/aolsendk)
#### Post date: [26 January 2020 11:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/js-editor-code-completion-templates/20863/8 "2020-01-26T11:56:21Z")
> [@knolleary](#):
>
> Please raise an issue and we can update the custom mode to include snippets.
Done.. and thank you for all the great work.
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### Author:  [@jamesnw](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jamesnw)
#### Post date: [7 June 2020 03:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/js-editor-code-completion-templates/20863/9 "2020-06-07T03:06:14Z")
Is code completion available? I don't see it when working with the function node editor.