Comments on: TextExpander Improvements: User Input

By: purplegenie

purplegenie — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:19:08 +0000

To get my $30, textexpander would have to fix a crippling bug — I use it to data stamp my file names. I type along, and when I get to the end of the title and go to stamp, the stamp blinks in, but erases everything before it in the line. I’ve reported the bug, and the answer boils down to, “maybe this will get fixed in a future version.”

$30 seems to be a bit high, but I have quickly come to depend on this program for my day to day work, so it’s worth it to me. However, I’m switching to Typei4me, which is about the same price and doesn’t have the annoying “erase my whole line when I invoke an abrev.” bug.

Typeit4me seems to do better with fast typing, btw, so if you have that problem with TextExpander, check it out.

By: Ben Jackson

Ben Jackson — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:46:21 +0000

Better support for fast typers. At 60+ wpm it’s unusable.

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:34:53 +0000

Yea, I suggested being able to organise the snippets in folders.

I have lots & lots of snippets. Way to many to be able to remember abbreviations for all of them. So if they were organised into folders I could use all the abbreviations I could remember. And then for the rest I could select the snippets from the menu bar icon organised nicely in subfolders (same way as with iSnip).

If they added that feature alone I’d buy the new version & be able to use 1 app instead of Textpander & iSnip.

By: bob

bob — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:23:36 +0000

Dude, I agree with Kai. Make it $10 and watch the sales grow more than 3x current.

Nice app – to be sure – but way too much.

By: Kai

Kai — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:19:57 +0000

My suggestion would be that paying for the current feature set is OK, but $30 is too steep.
I have been using the donation-ware version (yep, and haven’t got around to paying for it) and would happily pay $10 or even $15 for the current feature set that I’m using, but $30 is a fair chunk of cash for a small utility like this.

Payment for the app is great, I’m just questioning the amount.

By: beelers

beelers — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:48:57 +0000

How is TextExpander so different from the venerable TypeIt4Me?

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:26:59 +0000

I’ve got an old version of TextExpander (back from the days when it was Textpander), so this may have been updated. Having said that, I’d love an option to set whether the snippet expands after a delimiter is typed or not by snippet.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:27:49 +0000

Let the users bundle snipets with a filter for which applications the bundle works with (ala quicksilvers triggers).

Create a site for users to post bundles.

Textmate is a great source of ideas here as it does this sort of thing really well.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:47:24 +0000

yeah, exactly – hence the ‘reverse delimiter’ idea I was thinking of. I don’t have a perfect solution in mind, but the smart people at Smile On My Mac should be able to deal with that…

hopefully they’ll get wind of this thread and there’ll be some good ideas submitted that they’ll pick up.

By: Lee Webb

Lee Webb — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:35:45 +0000

Hi,

I’d want it to know what I want to type before I even touch the keyboard!

The trouble I have with it is expanding stuff in the middle of a word, say for an abbreviation I’d forgotten about. Can be kind of embarrassing!

Lee