Create Text Expansions Macro

That’s great (and surprising)!


Hopefully not too much OT, here are a couple of tips for TextExpander switchers (or Typinator beginners):

  • Install the predefined sets (in case they aren’t auto-installed). In the Predefined Sets sheet you also find a link, where you have even more useful sets and examples.

  • Set your Sets folder to a syncable location, for example iCloud Drive, DropBox:

  • Don’t forget to enable beta updates (they have a pretty good update frequency):

  • You can set the abbreviation prefix/suffix ‘globally’ for each abbreviation set:

  • Don’t miss out the regex abbreviation examples:

    Typinator uses the same regex package as Keyboard Maestro (ICU).

  • You can store snippets also in form of individual text files in the includes folder:

    Scripts also go there.

  • Your scripts can take an argument that you can feed through an expansion or via regex:


I hope this is useful.

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