I liked the way Texter worked but it's home site appears to be gone so if you try to click anything in the Help menu it just gives a 404/page not found error. Thanks for responding! I looked at Texter and TyperTask before starting, and I became aware of PhraseExpress after. What programming language do you plan to use? placeholder for special characters (TAB, Shift+TAB, etc) But these are only available in PhpStorm of course. I also use PhpStorm at work that has a similar feature that works pretty well and I have ported some of my snippets there. I'm thinking on switching to Texter from Breevy but I have so much snippets to migrate. I like Texter's simplicity but there are hundreds of application files that not appeals to me. I settled for Breevy because it just 'works' and easy to configure though for example PhraseExpress has more features. I used Texter, Breevy (commercial), PhraseExpress and Auspex.
*A graphical way to see all the the activations strings and trigger keys without needing to open the rules to edit.Īll of these features are subject to change based on what I can get working well enough to leave in the app.ĭoes anyone have any ideas or feature requests for an app like this? Please keep in mind Expansionist (name may change) is focused on text expansion, so no app launching or mouse clicking.
*Can use special strings like to insert the current time or clipboard content into the expanded text. *For speed with long text strings you can opt to use the clipboard and paste rather than simulate keyboard input (using the clipboard disables several other functions). *Can set the trigger key(s) for each expansion rule. *For compatibility you can change the global input method, keystroke speed and duration.
I am most of the way through creating the core code but I thought I would ask the community for feature ideas.Īt this point I am tentatively planning on: I am working on a simple text expansion app.