Start writing an email to somebody (or start editing any document).How To Use TexpanderĪfter setting up the keyboard shortcut to launch Texpander, to use Texpander: But the bottom line is I just map Ctrl+Shift+T to the texpander.sh bash script. I've personally tested this on Pop!_OS and Elementary OS 5.1 but each desktop environment has a slightly different way of setting up keyboard shortcuts. This process may be slightly different for you depending on what desktop environment and Linux distribution you have. For example, if want to use my email signature, I'll create a file ~/.texpander/sig.txt that has all of my contact information. I have a couple different email signatures that I use. So, if I'm typing an email, it doesn't matter if I'm in gmail (using Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or Vivaldi), Thunderbird, Vim, or Nylas, the workflow is the same. I have crtl+space assigned to run ~/bin/texpander.sh. Name the files in the format of abbreviation where the filename is the thing you want to type and the content of the file is what you want to have pasted into your document. The text expansion files reside in your ~/.texpander directory and can be organized in subdirectories. For example for Ubuntu you can get what you need with the following commands. If those aren't already installed on your system you can probably grab them from your distros package manager without any trouble. Texpander relies on a couple command line tools: Create a ~/.texpander directory where you store text files for expanding abbreviations.Create a keyboard shortcut that calls ~/bin/texpander.sh. Put texpander.sh somewhere on your system, perhaps your ~/bin directory.Texpander is a bash script that uses xclip, xdotool, and zenity to let you type an abbreviation for something and it expands to whatever you have in the matching text file. It is sort of like Autokey, except it works off of text files that you put in your ~/.texpander directory. Texpander is a simple text expander for Linux. Systemctl -user enable rviceįollow the rest of the original guide to setup this scipts in your desktop environment.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |