http://tidbits.com/ The enhanced fill-in macros in TextExpander 4 make complex fill-in snippets easy to construct. Michael Cohen, author of “Take Control of TextExpander,” explains what they are and why they’re so useful. en-us Copyright 2012 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EDT Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EDT editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/13223?rss#comments_16143 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:08:37 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13223#comments_16143
Next, if I can learn a little bit of Apple Script, I hope I can automate some boilerplate emails, order-taking and other tedious things.

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I think there are multiple approaches to making this stuff work - Grammarian uses an Input Manager, and both Keyboard Maestro and TextExpander require that access for assistive devices be turned on in the Accessibility preference pane.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13223?rss#comments_15604 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:40:48 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13223#comments_15604
Outside of the obvious travails of keeping it all straight, are there still downsides to running these things together? (TE does a better job of expansion than the others, but KM offers machine control macros; Dash is great for computer reference manuals; Grammarian is a nice dictionary cum spell checker... but... all at once? )

I'd love it if multifunction software would give me the option to monitor for expansion...

Comments appreciated (including any techno-geeky stuff as to how this all works these days without "hooks" into the OS...

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