[X4U] Keyboard shortcuts

Fabian Fang ftf at mac.com
Sat Dec 23 09:58:19 PST 2006


On Dec 23, 2006, at 8:45 AM, John Erdman wrote:

> Seems like I have to type in my email address several times a day.   
> (I don't know why the key chain is not filling in those forms for  
> me. The function is turned on but it doesn't seem to work in  
> Camino.... but I'm not trying to fix that yet.)
>
> I OS9 I used to be able to "program" selected key stroke  
> combinations to provide a string of text so that I could type in a  
> whole text string with one keyboard input.
>
> Quickeys X looks like it would do this for me. But $50 US is an  
> awful lot to pay for such a simple task.
>
> Does anyone know of freeware or donationware that would help me  
> with this simple task.... I don't ever anticipate having more than  
> one hot key for text strings.


For several years I have been using Textpander, a freeware, which has  
evolved into the shareware program TextExpander ($29.95):
<http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/index.html>

Fabian



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