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Espanso looks pretty cool! I’m curious if you can share compelling reasons to switch from e.g. Alfred’s snippets functionality (on macOS)? I’ve used aText for

Espanso looks pretty cool! I’m curious if you can share compelling reasons to switch from e.g. Alfred’s snippets functionality (on macOS)? I’ve used aText for a long time, then semi-recently moved most things to Alfred, but I’m curious about Espanso :)

federicoterzi 6y ago
Thanks! First things that come to my mind: 1. Espanso is free and open-source 2. If you use espanso and then move to Linux or Windows, the transition is flawless 3. It support Forms [1] and it can be extended in many ways [2] 4. You can easily collaborate with others and share snippets on the Hub: https://hub.espanso.org/ https://hub.espanso.org/ Cons: There is no GUI yet, but we are working on it [1]: https://espanso.org/docs/forms/ https://espanso.org/docs/forms/ [2]: https://espanso.org/docs/matches/ https://espanso.org/docs/matches/
- tnorthcutt 6y ago
  Thanks for the replies! One more question if you're up for it: does Espanso suffer from having secure input disabled? I frequently see this with both aText and Alfred: "Secure input is enabled (by loginwindow)" (aText) & "loginwindow seems to be preventing text expansion by locking secure entry" (Alfred)... with no indication as to how to rectify the situation.
  - tnorthcutt 6y ago
    Ah nevermind, I see this when I run `espanso start`: "WARNING: An application is currently using SecureInput and might prevent espanso from working correctly." For anyone else who ends up here with the same problem: this blog post was helpful as it suggested that locking & unlocking my system might remove the lock on secureinput created by loginwindow: https://rakhesh.com/mac/macos-find-app-using-secure-input/ https://rakhesh.com/mac/macos-find-app-using-secure-input/
    - federicoterzi 6y ago
      Yes, unfortunately there is not much we can do about that, given that macOS does not give us much information :)

federicoterzi 6y ago

Thanks! First things that come to my mind: 1. Espanso is free and open-source 2. If you use espanso and then move to Linux or Windows, the transition is flawless 3. It support Forms [1] and it can be extended in many ways [2] 4. You can easily collaborate with others and share snippets on the Hub: https://hub.espanso.org/ https://hub.espanso.org/ Cons: There is no GUI yet, but we are working on it [1]: https://espanso.org/docs/forms/ https://espanso.org/docs/forms/ [2]: https://espanso.org/docs/matches/ https://espanso.org/docs/matches/

tnorthcutt 6y ago
Thanks for the replies! One more question if you're up for it: does Espanso suffer from having secure input disabled? I frequently see this with both aText and Alfred: "Secure input is enabled (by loginwindow)" (aText) & "loginwindow seems to be preventing text expansion by locking secure entry" (Alfred)... with no indication as to how to rectify the situation.
- tnorthcutt 6y ago
  Ah nevermind, I see this when I run `espanso start`: "WARNING: An application is currently using SecureInput and might prevent espanso from working correctly." For anyone else who ends up here with the same problem: this blog post was helpful as it suggested that locking & unlocking my system might remove the lock on secureinput created by loginwindow: https://rakhesh.com/mac/macos-find-app-using-secure-input/ https://rakhesh.com/mac/macos-find-app-using-secure-input/
  - federicoterzi 6y ago
    Yes, unfortunately there is not much we can do about that, given that macOS does not give us much information :)