I have a couple boilerplate email responses in there as well that will just blow out the standard response with spots to fill in the user's name, for those "did you turn it off and on again" emails you write 50-odd times a day. Typinator is a low-key and practical macOS application specially designed to help you type frequently used text faster and easier. So I can enter ' ldif ' and it will prompt me for a user's name and UID values, then construct an LDIF file for use in adding them to LDAP. Collection of my snippets for the text expansion program Typinator. I also take advantage of Typinator's variable system. rarr -> Prints the "→" character, which is handy for nice lists. fullstack -> Prints the subCA and root CA certificates in PEM format for the CA we usually use chr -> Prints "Cheers, " as a quick way to sign an email ![]() DT -> Prints the date as 19 March, 2021 for more formal writing dt -> Prints the date as 2021-Mar-19 (very useful for quick-naming backup files!) Probably because it's tied to the Autocorrect engine, which is very aggressive.) (Annoyingly, the default substitutions in Mac OS/iOS don't respect these-if you create a trigger named ' dt ', it's going to try and trigger every time you write 'dt', with or without the semicolon and space. ' dt ' is the full shortcut), as that doesn't come up in normal writing. These days I use ' ' and then follow the trigger with a space (e.g. This prevents issues like having a shortcut trigger in the middle of writing a command or a piece of code. Typinator's primary use case is to type an abbreviation and get the expansion inserted into your document. I started by picking a 'shortcut tag'-a single character that prefixes all my shortcuts that aren't typo replacements. Product Announcements - Ergonis Software of Perg, Austria has released Typinator 7.4, an improved version of their highly acclaimed text expander for macOS. ![]() I have some abbreviations I only use once in a blue moon, but there are a couple I've gotten miles and miles of use out of. I've been using Typinator and singing its praises to people for years.
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