I do a lot of text editing for work and there are some phrases that I have to type frequently. What's the best way to quickly paste those phrases into a document using a shortcut or keyword? I mainly use Kwrite and Kate as i prefer plain text editors and need no formatting.
Pulsar (i.e. active fork of Atom) has a pretty comprehensive snippets package that comes bundled with the editor. Can be configured with some fairly simple
cson
, for example with Markdown:You type
helem
then presstab
and it will expand toHello Lemmy!
when using the Markdown grammar (source.gfm
).It can handle custom tab stops too so you can make a longer preformatted sentence with gaps to insert words which you can just tab through (the
$1, $2, $3
).You can even do multi-line snippets. For anyone wanting to try it out the docs are here