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triggering a snippet text expansion by key sequence only works in some apps/fields and very inconsistently. Puts the feature at an unusable level practically.
how are you using it? in general the paste text action works everywhere where you can paste text, you can also set it to type instead of paste then it will work everywhere but slower
already done: try different triggers e.g. with/without leading $, re-clear/record the trigger sequence. there are no overloaded trigger strings from the os text expander, no other text expander hooked in.
I've now tried the OS text replacement functionality from gmail/chrome a compose contenteditable? field: 0 triggers on 2 snippets . works consistently with textedit (NSTextView?). User judgement: unusable, I want to use it consistently across apps and inputs.
after some time with it now - it does not work reliably: some key triggering snippets don't trigger with no clear pattern. workaround: clear/relearn the sequence (record-save).
re-learning does nothing if you record the same sequence again, however using proper timing values is crucial and depends a lot on how you are using key sequences. In general they are very reliable.
1 second could still be too short. Especially if you’re typing special characters and need to look at the keyboard.
Abbreviations don’t need to be long, just unique. This can be achieved, for example, with space space. So "Mit freundlichen Grüssen" could be shortened to fg space space. That’s short and unique because you never type two spaces after a word. And the spacebar is always directly under your thumb. And if you ever just want to write fg, you’d only press space once, so nothing would be triggered.
