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Text editor with predefined text snippets? (lemdro.id)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by mfat@lemdro.id to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Vim macros are quite easy to use, if you already know how to vi.

[–] ouch@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Besides macros, I think vim had some other relevant feature for this. Just can't remember it right now.

[–] overkill@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I use (neo)vim with UltiSnips for coding, text editing and writing e-mails, and it works great! It's super customizable.

[–] zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

UltiSnips is fantastic

[–] overkill@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah with its flags / regex / python support UltiSnips is really the gold standard of a snippet engine. In many other environments "snippets" really just means "substitute one string for another", where UltiSnips is so much more!

[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Might be a plugin. I think I'm using friendly-snippets (whatever is in LazyVim). There is also LuaSnip. They feed into my auto completion plugin as one of several sources.