offering When Clause context for snippet activation

[adhamfarrag]

I'd like to have when clause for snippets. This can he useful in these contexts:

• Some frameworks/languages offer snippets that change from one version to the other. And no need to release extensions for each version.
• Some extensions do not just offer snippets, and in this case Snippets can still work even when the extension is deactivated.
• Programmatically injected snippets do not work for embedded languages. Offering that can be a solution too.

Workaround for this issue can be enabling/disabling snippets by moving files from VSCode Extension directory to another path. But this requires users to refresh it, so doing it programmatically doesn't really work unless users want to enable/disable them.

 {
  "when": "language.versionFour",
  "language": "html",
  "path": "./snippets/lang/components.json"
 },

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