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Congrats on getting a project out the door, but I have to ask how is this better than Text Replacement built into macOS/iOS?
by Jeremy1026 6y ago
Congrats on getting a project out the door, but I have to ask how is this better than Text Replacement built into macOS/iOS?
- strmpnk 6y agoThe other plus of text replacement is synchronization. I have a bunch of LaTeX style symbol names mapped on my Mac but they work just as well on my phone. I’m typing this on a phone and \Omega is automatically replaced with Ω or a favorite of mine \shrug becomes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I also spend time on Windows and nothing seems to come close to this convenient (win-. has a few useful things like the character picker panel in macOS but to get more, tools like autohotkey feel really cumbersome).
- Jeremy1026 6y agoI have sshrug for ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, and mdshrug for when I'm sending it somewhere that has markdown ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯.
- wraptile 6y agoThanks! I'm kinda repeating myself but major differences: 1. Text Replacement enters the text and _then_ replaces it which for me is really distracting. 2. It has this little pop up even for a single option which is also very distracting. The benefit of it however is that it's more stable (as mentioned in README so apps ignore user keybinds for some reason)