Hello. I am using the default text replacement function in macOS and iOS but I have a bit of a problem with how it operates. When I type-in the shortcut, I then have to click space for it to be replaced. And that’s the problem.
Is there any way I could confirm the replacement without adding any character? Preferably without any confirmation, just write the characters and it would replace by itself.
I am open to using other text replacement system but it has to work on iOS as well.
I use text replacement on iOS and have not used textexpander. It’s important to have the space because it signals for the text to be replaced. For example, you could have two replacement snippets - zz and zzz. If you didn’t have a space, then the zzz could never be triggered as a replacement. I hope that explains it.
Well, TextExpander doesn’t seem to be the solution for me. Though it replaces it without need for signalling, it takes for-ever to insert it. I need it to be instant. And it puts a SPACE after the snippet, so it’s the same problem.
Actually the space does not have to be there, you can change that in TE settings.
But I find it strange it takes long to expand, mine always expand instantaneously. Even a full legal article will be there in a blink.
It’s on macOS. I need those snippets inside of other words; it seems to struggle with that.
I know that it is a niche problem what I need is this:
Write a sentence and sometimes in the beginning, sometimes in the middle and sometimes at the end of a word; I need to write a snippet beginning with either colon or semicolon; for it to expand; and I need to be immediately able to continue typing.