![]() ![]() Now there’s one final point on this that might be of note to iOS users and I was pleased to hear get a reference in the episode. All trigger strings that I’m very unlikely to come across in day to day text entry. Hence I might choose home, \home, hhome, or xhome for example. Instead this is where a prefix would come into play.īy selecting some character to prefix the string and make it unique enough that it wouldn’t show up accidentally in another word (or in fact any string … sometimes extra care with passwords is required regardless of whether apps support password field security options ). Now whitespace in some text expansion apps can be used to help curtail accidental triggering, but given it could prefix or suffix a larger word, that wouldn’t help here. But it would be terrible as a choice of trigger as there are many words in the English language that use the letters ‘home’ in that order. Now if I wanted to use say home as some sort of trigger for expanding to produce my home address, that would be great for it being easily remembered and being meaningful to me. It is quite common to use a prefix for text expansion to make that initial trigger string unique. As a result, I’d end up with something like \fooba-looba-dor, and that’s just gibberishīut the point here is to focus on unique string permutations that do not overlap. If I then disable the \foo, I’d next get the ooba expansion triggering when I try to type in \foobar. As soon as I got to the second o, the \foo expansion would trigger and I’d end up with foo-foo-foobar assuming instant expansion (which is honestly rather unlikely on my devices). If I want to define a new text expansion with a trigger string of \foobar, this would never trigger.
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