I seriously don’t know how I got by without this. It’s great! Just wish I had it last week when I had an influx of orders and had to keep typing the same thing over and over and over…well, you get the picture. :)

Anybody want to post some of their most common uses of this app? I’m doing the basic stuff such as name, address, e-mails, letter closings, etc. but I’m looking for innovative uses that other people have come up with.

I’m pretty sure that TextExpander 1.4.2 didn’t work properly in Flash. I had tried to use snippets for some of my commonly used lines of ActionScript, but when TE inserted the replacement text it didn’t actually REPLACE the text - it just added it after the text that triggered the replacement in the first place! My point being: it now works fine in Flash CS3.

P.S. TE just fixed the typo I made while typing “that” just a second ago :)

I’m looking forward to using this too, especially the .Mac syncing. .Mac syncing makes my life bearable right now and it looks like Leopard’s going to enhance it even further. I use it for making standard comments on document revisions (“This needs to be clearer.”, “Perhaps you could expand on this point.”, etc.) The only thing that could make it better for me at this point is if it had some of the complex tabbing infrastructure you get with the tab key in Textmate. I’ve always wondered if that was possible OS-wide with OS X, perhaps using the way the option key allows you to insert accents on different letters.

But Merlin, whatever happened to those quick Macbreak video clips? They were really useful and I learned about a ton of new, helpful programs from them.

Anyone else have a problem with Textexpander barfing? Sometimes I have to retype the snippet a couple times to get it to pop (which defeats the purpose of the program in the first place). If I change focus to another program and then go back it sometimes works again.

We’ll see if the update makes a difference.

Merlin & Leo covered a ton of stuff in the video. Personally, I find it mostly useful for:

• my ever-growing raft of email sigs

• my hopefully-not-growing list of email addys (why do I always pick loooong names?)

• flickr credit info on blog

• unwieldy yet oft-used URLs: public iDisk, my photo sig on a group blog I manage (I have one set up for all users—snap!)

• boilerplate: LinkedIn refusals, intro text on a blog series, thank you text on Flickr pp whose pix I use, etc.

This new ability to exclude apps rocks in a major way. I’d been putting off the new install—thanks for the push, Merlin.

My sig has been “xxx (return) c” since I was doing it on lined paper in 1968.

Creating a TextExpander snippet that removes the third “x” and the return makes the process so much easier and more pleasant, and given the amount of correspondence I have, will probably add 1.5 years to my life.

Ditto my tel #, the word “with” (now w/), and a bunch of MailTags like “receipts”, “taxes2007”, “registrations”, etc.

It’s kind of the McDonald’s theory of efficiency—a second here, a nanosecond there…

I wonder how the latest version of TextExpander holds up against the other competitors in the market.

Right now, because I’m cheap, I use the old, free version of Textpander. They dropped the “e” for “saveings.”

It is invaluable, partly because the academic program I coordinate has a title that is 63 letters long. There are also a number of words related to our work that are not easily spelled and a little long that I type again and again and again.

However, Textpander does sometimes not respond as someone else noted above and the abbreviation has to be retyped. A bigger problem is that if you err while typing the abbreviation and fix it, it doesn’t work. You have to retype the abbreviation from the beginning for Textpander to recognize it. I wonder if this has changed in TextExpander.

It's the killer feature of TextExpander for me. I use it to build some of the more common snippets from other Apps like Mail or Address Book. If I can get away with a shameless plug.

I am loving this app but have not figured out the steps to synch with .mac. Nothing on the application’s Wiki help pages that explains.