Hi. I guess I'm a bit confused, then. I can understand why test expansion and the like wouldn't appeal to some people, but for solving your particular problem, TextExpander would work. You could tell it, for example, that if you typed HTML in bbedit, and then followed it with a chosen demarcation keystroke (space, tab, etc), it would expand into the base layout for the page. It's not quite as clean as doing it in the application, I'll admit, and it's not always foolproof, but it would address your particular concern. Similarly, with Keyboard Maestro, Dash, and so on, you could do something similar, but somewhat differently.
Kevin McKenzie On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Christopher Finazzo < [email protected]> wrote: > I've tried them, but the whole idea of these kinds of text expansion apps > just doesn't appeal to me. If I'm thinking about it objectively, I can see > there is a use case for some people, but that's not me. > > If someone can find out how to sell this idea to regular people, maybe it > would catch on outside of our circle of nerds, but I can just as easily see > someone look at it and dismiss it without a second thought ("Text expansion > is for wimps, just type" etc.) > > > On Friday, May 10, 2013 11:11:42 AM UTC-4, Kevin McKenzie wrote: > >> While not exactly a response to your question, have you looked at >> something like TextExpander, BetterTouchTool, and so on? TextExpander >> especially is incredibly powerful, letting you nest expansions, include >> Applescript or shell scripts as part of an expansion, and much else. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On May 10, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Christopher Finazzo <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I sent this message to Bare Bones Support earlier this morning, I am >> replicating it here for the purpose of general discussion. >> >> Is there a reason why BBEdit does not support arbitrary keybindings for >> inserting snippets or autocompletion of text. Moving to BBEdit from Coda, >> this was a feature that I made extensive use of and cannot (at least in the >> application's default configuration) seem to replicate this behavior. >> BBEdit's User Manual specifies that either the Command key or the Control >> keys be when creating a shortcut and can only be used along with other >> modifier keys (Option, Shift, etc.) when assigning a custom keybinding. >> Is this behavior intentional, and if so, what is the reason for it? I >> would much rather be able to assign a short name and then be able to press >> Tab in order to complete a tag or other block of text. >> For example, one could assign "HTML" to the default clipping for an HTML5 >> doctype and use it to quickly create a base layout for a page. As it >> stands, Keyboard Shortcuts (and by extension, Clippings) are of limited use >> because they require cumbersome modifier keys in order to activate. >> Does Bare Bones have any plans to adopt such a feature in the future? It >> would go a long way to encouraging people to make use of keyboard shortcuts >> to improve their daily workflow. >> >> >> -- >> This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a >> feature request or would like to report a problem, please email >> "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. >> >> Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit**> >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BBEdit Talk" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to bbedit+un...@**googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> >> >> >> -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a > feature request or would like to report a problem, please email > "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
