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.
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
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.
Depending on the complexity, there’s also
abbrev-mode: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Abbrevs.html
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
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
Autokey?
CopyQ
Looks good, thanks!