How-to in Keymando: dynamically select text and text expansions

[Dylan Conlin]

I'm considering moving from Karabiner (formerly KeyRemap4MacBook) to Keymando, but I have a few use-cases I can't figure out in Keymando

1. Is it possible to select dynamically select text? In emacs, this is called "setting the mark." Essentially, you set the mark and then select text via your regular nav keys. When you take any action on selected text--copying, cutting, etc, the mark is unset.

The following doesn't work on Mavericks:

    command "set_mark" do

      hold_key("<shift>")

    end

2. Bindings such as--

    map ;hi, 'Hi there!'

--do not display any text on the screen until the initial string is finished. This is unfortunate, as it's counterintuitive for string input to not show up on the screen. Ideally, text expansions, or snippets would display as entered until we hit a 'completion-modifier' such as `tab`.

Thanks,

Dylan

[Sean Mackesey]

#1 would require sophisticated communication with the target application. Keymando doesn't do that. But, if the application in which you're editing text already supports setting the mark, then Keymando will let you map that functionality to arbitrary keystrokes.

I think your #2 suggestion only makes sense if you consider Keymando a utility primarily for snippets text/manipulation; Keymando can be used for that, but it doesn't do it particularly well. The real strength of Keymando is its generality. I use it primarily for window resizing, manipulating the visibility of toolbars, and running scripts. You should really use something like TextExpander for snippets. 

[Kevin Colyar]

Take a look at the abbrev plugin for #2

https://github.com/keymando/abbrev

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[Dylan Conlin]

Thank you, this is very helpful.