[TxMt] Autoabbreviation?

[David Lee]

textpander seems to be a better implementation than typeit4me i think

or at least has a better name ..

http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=textpander

cheers,
David


On 24/06/2005, at 3:23 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 23/06/2005, at 15.21, Ben Jackson wrote:
>
>> Anyone here use or has used TypeIt4Me? I loved the idea while it  
>> worked on my machine, but after 5 minutes it disappeared from my  
>> menu bar and the developer is not responsive. Basically every time  
>> you press a space it scans a list of abbreviations and expands the  
>> text if it finds a match. Is this something I could do in tm with  
>> a command?
>
> I'd think so. Though more like a macro (bound to space) which first  
> selects current word and then runs a command with output set to  
> e.g. snippet.
>
> Then that command can look at $TM_CURRENT_WORD and output whatever  
> it wants. You'd probably want to set the scope for this macro to  
> “text” so it doesn't interfer with your coding.
>
> Though you may also want to look into snippets (with tab triggers),  
> although a bit more “manual” in that you need to press tab after  
> the abbreviation (instead of space), it's basically the same,  
> though also support placeholders and shell runs. For an example try  
> to write: “c)” and press tab. For me that expands to: “(c)  
> Copyright 2005 Allan Odgaard. All Rights Reserved. ”. For you it  
> should give you your name :) You can also do “isoD” for current  
> date in ISO 8601 format, or “lorem” for a lot of Latin text. All  
> this is defined in the Bundle Editor. The snippets mentioned are in  
> the Text Utilities bundle. There are more interesting snippets in  
> the various programming language bundles (snippets which e.g. have  
> placeholders you can tab through).
>
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