TextExpander

textexpander

The most popular text replacement and shortcut app: generate custom word, sentence, and paragraph text with keyboard shortcuts.

Detected by com.smileonmymac.textexpander | macOS |textexpander.com

Sync it textexpander.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

TextExpander in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

· Backups/ Exclude

· Settings Backup.textexpander Exclude

· ~/Library/Preferences/com.smileonmymac.textexpander.plist Sync

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/textexpander.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "textexpander"

name = "TextExpander"

homepage = "https://textexpander.com"

description = "The most popular text replacement and shortcut app: generate custom word, sentence, and paragraph text with keyboard shortcuts."

# The app icon, the apple-touch-icon on textexpander.com.

icon = "https://textexpander.com/wp-content/themes/textexpander-web/images/icons/apple-touch-icon-180x180.png"

# TextExpander ships no command-line tool, so `detect` is the bundle

# identifier. Verified on this Mac: `osascript -e 'id of app "TextExpander"'`

# answers com.smileonmymac.textexpander, and `defaults domains` lists both it

# and the com.smileonmymac.textexpander.helper agent beside it.

detect = ["com.smileonmymac.textexpander"]

# TextExpander also has a Windows build, but only the macOS locations below

# were verified, so the entry claims macOS alone.

platforms = ["macos"]

# Verified on a Mac with TextExpander installed, and against the Homebrew cask

# `textexpander`, whose zap stanza names ~/Library/Application Support/

# TextExpander and ~/Library/Preferences/com.smileonmymac.textexpander.plist.

# The support directory is where the snippets live. On this machine it holds

# Settings.textexpander — an XML property list whose keys are the snippet

# library itself (groupsTE2, snippetsTE2, and per-snippet abbreviation,

# abbreviationMode, plainText, snippetType, label) together with the app's

# settings (Auditory Feedback, Restore Pasteboard, Status Item,

# suggestAbbreviations, expandAfterMode, autoCapExceptions) — and

# TESettings.textexpanderlocal/, a directory of per-group index_*.xml and

# group_*.xml files with statistics_*.xml beside them.

paths = [

"[appData]/TextExpander/",

"[preferences]/com.smileonmymac.textexpander.plist",

]

# Settings Backup.textexpander and the Backups/ directory beside it are the

# automatic snapshots TextExpander keeps of earlier snippet libraries — this

# machine's copies are named "TextExpander Backup 2015-12-14-2317461_8

# .textexpbackup" and so on. They are history of the file that is already

# being carried, so they stay behind.

exclude = [

"[appData]/TextExpander/Backups/",

"[appData]/TextExpander/Settings Backup.textexpander",

]

# No whole-file credential among the paths above. The keys in

# Settings.textexpander are snippets and preferences; the account TextExpander

# signs in to for its own snippet sync is not represented by a file here.

secret = []

# No machine_lines: these are property lists, and `match` only understands

# line-oriented files, TOML, YAML and JSON. The machine-local keys in

# Settings.textexpander are the usage counters — Characters Saved, Snippet

# Count, useCount, lastUsed, the Statistics and DeviceStats dictionaries, Date

# Installed — which a consumer that can read plists should drop itself.

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/textexpander. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page.