Hey, I would like to know, if there is a way to set a hotkey to insert brackets at the beginning and the end of a marked text
For example:
My name is Shervin
Shortcut
(My name is Shervin)
My (dumb) approach to this would be:
- Copy highlighted text to clipboard
- Prepend and append contents of clipboard with “(“ and “)” respectively
- Paste clipboard so it replaces original selection
Haven’t tried this but it sounds like it might work and the KM macro to do it would be simple!
As @tiffle suggested:
It is easy to assign a KM Hot Key trigger to your Macro.
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