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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -28,6 +28,14 @@ The text expansion files reside in your `~/.texpander` directory and can be orga

I have `crtl+space` assigned to run `~/bin/texpander.sh`. So, if I'm typing an email, it doesn't matter if I'm in gmail (using Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or Vivaldi), Thunderbird, Vim, or Nylas, the workflow is the same. I have a couple different email signatures that I use. If I am writing to somebody about Cart66, the [WordPress Shopping Cart plugin](https://cart66.com), I'll use my Cart66 signature. I have a file `~/.texpander/sig66.txt` that has all my contact info and so forth for Cart66.

You can perform variable substitution on expansion files, with optional default values. Repeated variables will only prompt once, but if you use a default, be sure it is on the first occurrence or it will be dropped. (The format is the same as TextExpander, so you can more easily import your Mac-using coworkers snippets.)

```
mkdir %filltext:name=DIRECTORY:default=root_tmpdir%
chmod 755 %filltext:name=DIRECTORY%
chown root. %filltext:name=DIRECTORY%
```

![Texpander - text snippets for Ubuntu](https://lee.blue/share/texpander-demo.gif)

### Setting Up Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
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21 changes: 19 additions & 2 deletions texpander.sh
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Expand Up @@ -31,15 +31,32 @@ if [ -f "${base_dir}/${name}" ]
then
if [ -e "$path" ]
then
# Determine if the text requires variable substitution
if grep '%filltext' $path
then
# variable pattern is either
# "%filltext:name=VAR%"
# "%filltext:name=VAR:default=DEFAULT%"
subpat=''
while read var def; do
val=$(zenity --entry --title=Texpander --text="$var" --entry-text="$def")
# build a sed pattern to replace the filltext
subpat+="s/%filltext:name=$var\(:default=[^%]\+\)\?%/$val/;"
done < <(grep -E -o '%filltext:name=[[:alnum:]]+(:default=[[:alnum:][:space:]]+)?%' $path |sed 's/%//g; s/\(name=\|default=\|filltext:\)//g; y/:/ /;' |sort -u -k1,1)
# grep returns just the matched text
# sed cleans up and returns lines of "name default text"
# sort removes duplicate names
fi

# Preserve the current value of the clipboard
clipboard=$(xsel -b -o)

# Put text in primary buffer for Shift+Insert pasting
echo -n "$(tac "$path")" | tac | xsel -p -i
echo -n "$(cat "$path")" | sed "$subpat" | xsel -p -i

# Put text in clipboard selection for apps like Firefox that
# insist on using the clipboard for all pasting
echo -n "$(tac "$path")" | tac | xsel -b -i
echo -n "$(cat "$path")" | sed "$subpat" | xsel -b -i

# Paste text into current active window
sleep 0.3
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