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Text expansions

Note that I recently switched from TextExpander, which has a $36 annual subscription cost, to espanso, which is free, and, at least in my experience, MUCH faster.

All of the shortcuts below still work, and I have archived the orginal TextExpander backup files in this repo. But the new espanso YAML is available at default.yml.

I have also published a converter to enable you to quickly go from TextExpander to espanso, as I did :)


Clipboard Commands

Note: These are not yet ported to espanso.

With text selected, use the following commands to replace the text with a modified version:

Command Shortcut Example Before Example After Description
Upper-Case \\ku Lorem ipsum LOREM IPSUM idk I do this a lot
Hyphenate \\hyph Lorem ipsum okay? Lorem-ipsum-okay? Great for when you're having a I-need-to-hyphenate-everything sort of day
Generate LaTeX \\latex x^2 https://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=tx&chl=x%5E2 (Which is an image that renders as ) Great for posting formulas in non-LaTeX-friendly systems (like Slack)
Italicize (unicode) \\textit Are you kidding me? 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒊𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆? Uses unicode, so may display wonky in some systems
Remove line-feeds \\non Hello\nworld! Hello world! Good for sanitizing your clipboard before pasting into a terminal

Arrows

Symbol Shortcut
\rarrow
\larrow
\uarrow
\darrow
\lrarrow

Spaces and Dashes

Symbol Shortcut
\--
\mdash
\emdash
\ndash
\endash
[Non-breaking Space] \nbsp
[Zero-width Space] \zwsp
\bul
\check
[Tab] \tabsp

Math

Symbol Shortcut
× \times
\subset
μ \mu
± \pm
\int
\inf
\sum
ϴ \Theta
\setin
\Delta
º \deg
\cap
\cup
\leq
\geq
β \beta
\approx
Ξ E-|
\forall

Numerals

Symbol Shortcut
\(1)
\(2)
\(3)
\(4)

Pinyin

Mnemonic: All pinyin vowels (including ü) are supported. Type the vowel, and then type the vertical bar (|) and while holding shift, press the tone (1,2,3,4). In other words, to type ú, type u and then |@ (because @ is Shift+2, for 2nd-tone). To type ü vowels, use u: in place of the vowel. For example, ǘ is u|:@.

Symbol Shortcut
ā a|!
á a|@
ǎ a|#
à a|$
etc.