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A shortcut consists of a `trigger' and an `expansion'. Type the
trigger in a text window, and hit
The expansion may contain plain text, escape sequences in octal
(\120
or hexadecimal \xa6
) for special characters, newlines
(\n
), tabs (\t
), a tilde (~
), and a question mark
(?
). The tilde is not part of the expansion, but indicates the
point where the cursor should be put after expansion. A question mark
will cause a box to pop up on shortcut expansion. What is typed in the
box gets substituted for every occurrence of ?
in the expansion.
To get a normal tilde, question mark or backslash, use \~
,
\?
and \\
.
The best way to learn how to use shortcuts is to look at the example sets (browse through the predefined sets for the different modes as defined in the shortcut panel). The supplied shortcut sets only serve as examples.
Every text mode has up to four shortcut sets, which are saved in
separate configuration files, so that they can be shared between
different text modes. Shortcut sets are saved automatically on
Save options (Options menu). When a predefined shortcut set is changed, the suffix
.preset
is removed from its name.
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