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Text expand everywhere

Posted: Jan 31st, ’19, 12:17
by JJussi
Hi!
Feature where I can set that text expand works everywhere and always, would be fine. So every keyboard click is compared to "text expand" list and when there is known combination, text expand would act.

Now there must be "space", before text expand works. So if I have text expand ';fill_is' type:send ' is ' and ';fill_res' with 'result!', I could type "This;fill_is;fill_res" (notice no spaces before ;-characters) and result would be "This is result!"

This because I have multiple "ansi code" text expands and right now I need go "back" and remove extra spaces between codes and words.

Re: Text expand everywhere

Posted: Jan 31st, ’19, 16:37
by Marko
Not sure I understand. Ending characters (which trigger the substitution) can be defined in Preferences/Text Expander. You can also select a "Trigger immediately" option.

Re: Text expand everywhere

Posted: Feb 1st, ’19, 05:37
by JJussi
Ok,
1. I start type ;ansi
2. Text expander menu pop's up, showing only one line
3. Press enter, list of different ansi-codes menu show
4. Press key 2 from keyboard
5. Word ;ansi is replaced with \033[1m
6. Directly I continue to type ;ansi and nothing happen! \033[1m;ansi

If I press first space and then type ;ansi, I get again text expander menu, but now (afterwards) I need to go back and remove that space character from between too ansi codes...

Re: Text expand everywhere

Posted: Feb 2nd, ’19, 18:35
by Marko
Thanks. We will test this combinations to see if it could be improved.