I have a job where a part of our job is to write comments on some entries. Such as if we have edited it. This same string can get quite repetitive. Writing out initials followed by the current date. It would be amazing to have a script so each time you press a shortcut command, this script will fire and type out in the looks of "ABC YYYY-MM-DD: ". Making that process simpler. I’m quite new to Linux and thought maybe the community has some ideas. (We aren’t allowed to install any type of software due to security purposes. So if something already comes pre-baked within Ubuntu, would be quite neat! :P)
You should look into Espanso. It was made for this kind of things, and many others you didn’t thought you need!
Basically, it replaces “triggers” input into strings, which can be set dynamically with short scripts.
I had been using beeftext for the longest time but it’s windows only, espanso looks dope!
It is. Working great on Linux. The only pain is it has to be recompile from time to time (several months apart) on a rolling, but otherwise I had a great experience with it. It’s been recommended to me on this very community, so I’m sharing the tip!