Can this application do this?

[fastidious]

I am looking for a tool that will allow me to select text anywhere that's editable within macOS, and with a keystroke add either single quotes, double quotes, brackets, parenthesis, asterisks, etc. (not all at once!) for example, to both ends of the selected text. Can BetterTouchTool do that?

[Frank1]

I tried that with this action and at least part of it should work

[fastidious]

ChatGPT? Sorry, I assumed that wasn't part of BetterTouchTool, really not interested. I am looking for an approach that will not leave my machine, without involvement of AI, neither local, nor remote.

[Frank1]

Yes, you're welcome. I suppose something like this should work too.

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

There are many ways to achieve this, the most performant should be the predefined action "Transform & Replace Selection With Java Script":

This example would but the selection in double quote:

You can easily adapt the code for other transformations:

async (clipboardContentString) => {
   return `"${clipboardContentString}"`
}

[fastidious]

Thank you, that would work perfectly!

[Frank1]

This seems to be even a millisecond faster