I have a very basic macro created to insert a text template for book reviews. I intend to edit and store the notes in nvALT (Dropbox), but the macro I have created is not functioning within the nvALT application.
The macro is triggered by the string “.book” being typed and is inserted via “Insert Text by Pasting”. When I use it in the Stickies application that comes with OS X, or even here as I was typing without the macro disabled, it works fine. When I go into nvALT, however, and type the trigger nothing happens.
I’ve looked through all of the options in nvALT preferences and none of them seem to interfere with this non-functionality. Any help is appreciated.
Some applications, particularly cross platform apps, cache the clipboard, and then do not notice clipboard changes when Keyboard Maestro sets the clipboard (because the application is not expecting the clipboard to change).
Some options to force the application into updating its clipboard cache include:
If that were the only issue you would expect “Insert Text by Typing” to fix the problem, no? I just made that change and it is still not functioning within nvALT, but continues to work in Stickes.
In my nvALT troubleshooting I missed the checkbox for “Secure Text Entry”, which was enabled. After disabling this option the KM macros are working just fine within nvALT.