So I’m grooving along using my Textpander (old skool, baby) and thinking about doing even more with it. I mean, it is handy as it is, but I really hate going into the preference pane and walking through the mouse-heavy interface to add a new snippet. Sometimes, I realize that I’m going to type the word “existentialism” a bunch for the next few pages, and I want a quick-and-dirty, on-the-fly snippet added.

As far as I can tell, no can do.  read more »

TextExpander: Customizable Typing Utility Saves Time! (TextExpander snippets)

TextExpander nerds, rejoice! Your friends at Smile on My Mac have added a couple new snippet sets that can be imported into our favorite keystroke-saving preference pane.  read more »

TextExpander AutoCorrect Snippet File

Recently, I was emailing with our friends over at Smile on My Mac about how I use Text Expander as an automatic spelling and typo corrector, and I realized that there wasn’t a canonical location for the user-created “snippets” file you need to import in order to get this feature working.  read more »

TextExpander just got an update that adds a few features and fixes to this already essential OS X PreferencePane. Via email:

• Abbreviations with characters requiring the Option key are fixed
• Named delimiters (space, tab, return, esc) appear in other languages
• Other minor fixes

I have to say, I just love TextExpander (formerly “Texpander”). Its functionality is not unique — users of, say, TextMate, TypeIt4Me, or Windows’ popular ActiveWords (Hi, Buzz), or for that matter, Vim, will recognize the similarities. But, brother, is it ever easy to setup, modify, and use.

At the heart of it, TE gives you system-wide text shortcuts that, when typed, explode into much longer bits of text or can even, say, paste in an image, like your scanned signature. So, for example, if you’re sick of retyping a new email sig, you can store it in TE and assign “emailsig” as the trigger to paste in the full text for you.

A screenshot of the control panel, courtesy of the Smile on My Mac site:

There’s just too many uses for TextExpander to try and catalog here, but I’ll share a few that I particularly like…  read more »

Peter Maurer [Textpander]

It took me about 5 seconds to fall hopelessly in love with Textpander.

Like so many wonderful things in the world (*waves to Unix apps*) it does exactly one thing: it replaces text you type with other text (or images). So, how would you use this? God, how wouldn’t you? Here’s the bullets from the Textpander page:  read more »