It’s text-expansion capabilities, though, are the weakest of the group. Spell Catcher X is an incredibly powerful systemwide spelling checker with a huge collection of dictionaries. Macworld’s buying adviceĪll four of these programs are good. These capabilities put those two a step beyond the other text-expansion utilities. Only TextExpander and TypeIt4Me enable you to define AppleScripts as snippets only TextExpander lets you use shell scripts, too. All of these utilities except for Spell Catcher let you define where the cursor should be after your snippet is inserted. When you run the expansion, TextExpander pops up a dialog box, where you can fill in the data for each field. TextExpander takes a more structured approach, using field names in your expansion-so you could, for example, easily add a reference to the sales price in more than one spot. TypeIt4Me simply inserts pauses at each spot you indicate you type whatever you want, and then press Tab or Right Arrow to continue to the next insertion spot. (The brackets are just an example each program has its own variable formatting.) When you trigger the expansion, you’ll be prompted to input the bracketed variables. For example, you could create a shortcut named salesreply that expands into something like Thank you for your interest in, which we sell for we currently have available for sale. TextExpander lets you quickly create snippets of HTML coding and other complex text.Both TextExpander and TypeIt4Me enable you to create expansions that pause for user input. You may be able to use Dropbox or another service to sync snippet collections from the others, but doing so isn’t as easy as it is in TextExpander. Typinator’s text-entry box can’t expand, which makes it harder to add snippets.If you use more than one Mac, TextExpander alone has a preference that lets you sync snippets, using MobileMe or Dropbox. TextExpander and Spell Catcher allow you to create a new expansion based on the current selection and TextExpander and TypeIt4Me allow you to do so with items on the clipboard. TextExpander and TypeIt4Me also let you create new shortcuts from within any application, using global hotkeys. Both feature a freely expandable expansions box, which makes it easy to add longer text clippings. TypeIt4Me and TextExpander have the cleanest setup interfaces. All but Spell Catcher support snippets containing rich text and images, as well as plain text.īut before any of these programs will expand anything for you, you have to define some abbreviations and their full-form expansions. Even a more complex (and somewhat unrealistic) test case-pasting 1500 words of text, and inserting a couple of date and time references within it-worked well in all of them. But because they can do much more than that, I consider them a separate category.) The basicsĪll four programs do what they say they can do with basic, plain-text expansions. Among many other things, they can also insert text. A message will appear in which you'll be able to confirm that you want to launch the Application (even if it was not downloaded from the Mac App Store from an Identified Developer).(You might also include keyboard macro utilities, such as In this case, instead of double-clicking on it, all you have to do is to right-click on the Application's icon, and then select the "Open" menu. Under Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.10 Yosemite, 10.11 El Capitan and 10.12 Sierra, if you're launching the Application for the first time, maybe Mac OS X's GateKeeper (which you can configure in the "System Preferences") will refuse to launch it because you've not downloaded it from the Mac App Store (but from our website).The "How to intall it?" paragraph of the documentation has been updated to explain how to install and launch the Application in particular under Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.10 Yosemite, 10.11 El Capitan and 10.12 Sierra:.A full recompilation has been made to be compatible with El Capitan and Sierra, and as Universal Binary to keep being compatible with both old (PowerPC) Macs and recent (Intel) Macs.
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