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	http://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

Spaces and Dashes

Math

Numerals

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|:@.