With some exceptions, almost all these scripts are executable by themselves via the Script Menu. As a tool for AppleScript education by providing example scripts, tools, tips and AppleScript resources.Provide others with useful scripts for automating their workflow on macOS.This repo was created for two main reasons. This repo is in continuous development and will be updated as scripts are developed (and as I have time). Some are great as standalone scripts while others are great for incorporation with others. Now I’m not making any compromises in using Keyboard Maestro for text expansion.Collection of AppleScripts I've developed or acquired over the years. More important, though, is that it brings KM up to TE’s level when it comes to making new snippets. Making a Keyboard Maestro macro that runs an AppleScript that creates a new Keyboard Maestro macro is a lot of fun. I did a little editing to accommodate the inclusion of the trigger and expansion variables and pasted the result into the script. From there, it was easy to see the parts that defined the trigger and the action. How did I know the XML format? I created a test macro by hand, exported it, and opened the Test.kmmacros file in BBEdit. I took the overall structure of this section of the script from the Keyboard Maestro Wiki. Finally, Lines 28–36 create a new macro in the Snippet - Temporary group and define it according to the XML. Lines 6–26 define the XML text that defines what will become the new macro’s trigger and action. Lines 1–4 pull in the values of the variables set during the previous macro step. The second step does all the real work, running this AppleScript: applescript:ġ: tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine"Ģ: set trigger to getvariable "snippetTrigger"ģ: set expansion to getvariable "snippetExpansion"Ģ9: tell macro group "Snippet - Temporary"ģ0: set m to make new macro with properties The first step asks the user for the snippet information, prepopulating the expansion field with the contents of the clipboard. After clicking OK, I have a new snippet in my Snippet - Temporary group. Where I can define the trigger (I chose “ mi”) and adjust the expansion if necessary. To make a snippet for that name, I copy it to the clipboard and invoke my new Make Temporary Snippet from Clipboard macro. By combining AppleScript with Keyboard Maestro itself, I now have a way to make a KM snippet out of what’s on the clipboard.įor example, let’s say I’m writing a report about products made by Mxyzptlk Industries.
Some were even improved in the translation.Īnd I decided to tackle the one big advantage TextExpander had over Keyboard Maestro: the ability to make a new snippet quickly. Yes, there were some snippets from TextExpander that I’d made in the past few years that needed to be moved over to Keyboard Maestro, but that didn’t take much time. I had merely disabled them when I started using TextExpander again-now I just had to re-enable them. In a rare display of forethought, I didn’t delete my snippet macros. It works well, and I didn’t have to do too much work to switch over. So I’m back to using Keyboard Maestro as my snippet expansion tool. 1 And although Smile seems to have fixed the crashing problem I was having a month or two ago, I’m still leery of TextExpander’s reliance on a bespoke syncing service.
So cross-platform expansion isn’t as important as it once was. I no longer write anything longer than a text or an email on my iPad, and I don’t expect that to change.
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My M1 MacBook Air has brought me back to the Mac in a big way. Things have changed over the past few months. TextExpander has a very efficient way of adding new snippets. Also, I like making temporary snippets to handle common phrases-like the name of a product or a company-that appear often in my writing as I work on a particular project but will never be used after the project is finished. TextExpander was the only realistic snippet solution for iOS and iPadOS, and as I found myself writing more and more on my iPad, I couldn’t live without it. This is not the first time I’ve left TextExpander- I dropped it when Smile first adopted a subscription payment model about five years ago and stayed away even when Smile listened to the complaints and lowered the subscription price.Įventually, though, I returned. Next post Previous post From TextExpander to Keyboard Maestro… againĪfter a good bit of thinking, I canceled my TextExpander subscription today.
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