Using KM 7 for text expansions

Questions & Suggestions
1

I am Swedish but use an American keyboard to enter text. So I need a convenient method to enter national characters and other non-ascii7 characters. I have for many years used either Typinator or aText for that, but I thought I use fewer utilities and try to do more with KM.

I have a bunch of text snippets like this that expands immediately when typed:
.aa -> å, .oe -> ö, .oo -> ø

and also things like:
.Gamma -> Γ, .aleph -> ‭א …

This mostly works fine, but in some applications - in particular form fields with auto completion, KMs way of sending several backspaces to erase the to-be-expanded text fails. I don’t know how the dedicated text expansion applications do this, but they handle it better at least. Any chance for KM to get some improvements in this area?

2

Hello Sven,

If you’re a heavy user of text-abbreviations then it’s wise to stick with a dedicated utility.

While Keyboard Maestro does them pretty well, it doesn’t stand up to Typinator (which I use myself).

-Chris

1 Like