I do a lot of text editing for work and there are some phrases that I have to type frequently. What’s the best way to quickly paste those phrases into a document using a shortcut or keyword? I mainly use Kwrite and Kate as i prefer plain text editors and need no formatting.
I mainly use Kwrite and Kate
Check out Espanso, if you’re ok with something that is system-wide and not a text-editor:
+1 for Espanso. Great tool, use it every day.
Seconded. I love that it works under Wayland too, unlike Autokey.
Yeah, the install is a bit more involved under Walyand bit it does work like a charm.
+1
Vim macros are quite easy to use, if you already know how to vi.
Besides macros, I think vim had some other relevant feature for this. Just can’t remember it right now.
I use (neo)vim with UltiSnips for coding, text editing and writing e-mails, and it works great! It’s super customizable.
UltiSnips is fantastic
Yeah with its flags / regex / python support UltiSnips is really the gold standard of a snippet engine. In many other environments “snippets” really just means “substitute one string for another”, where UltiSnips is so much more!
If I understand you correctly, this is trivial in emacs:
(defun insert-text () (interactive) (insert "your text here")) (global-set-key your-keybind-here #'insert-text)You could make it a format string if it relies on data specific to some file or parameter. You could also make the keybind local to certain modes/files rather than a global keybind if you don’t want to pollute your keybind space.
Emacs has several templating/snippet packages available, such as YASnippet.
There’s a built in snippet system too, called skeletons, but most people seem to prefer the yasnippet interface.
Depending on the complexity, there’s also
abbrev-mode: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Abbrevs.html
I use Autokey because I prefer a global snippets engine. Then it works in text editors, browsers, email clients, etc.
Pulsar (i.e. active fork of Atom) has a pretty comprehensive snippets package that comes bundled with the editor. Can be configured with some fairly simple
cson, for example with Markdown:'.source.gfm': 'Hello Lemmy': 'prefix': 'helem' 'body': 'Hello Lemmy!'You type
helemthen presstaband it will expand toHello Lemmy!when using the Markdown grammar (source.gfm).
It can handle custom tab stops too so you can make a longer preformatted sentence with gaps to insert words which you can just tab through (the$1, $2, $3).'.source.gfm': 'My custom snippet': 'prefix': 'mcs' 'body': 'My snippet stops here $1 and then here $2 and then continues $3'You can even do multi-line snippets. For anyone wanting to try it out the docs are here
Autokey?
I’ve used Autokey with great success in the past. Easy to set up, just works.
Kate snippets. If you download them you think “huh do I need to know XML or what?”
But just install the extension and everything has a nice GUI
CopyQ
Looks good, thanks!
