The below examples relate to my Espanso config.

Utilities [utils.yml]

All triggers in this section begin with a colon : (similar to Vim's Ex mode commands), followed by a symbol or short string indicating the command.

• Online Utilities
  • :ip - Outputs your current public IP address (using ipify.org)
  • :weather - Outputs a summary of the weather in your location (using wttr.in)
• Markdown Shortcuts
  • :md-code - Inserts a markdown code block, and positions the cursor in the center
  • :md-collapse - Inserts a markdown collapsable section
  • :md-anchor - Inserts a markdown hyperlink, with the clipboard content as the URL, and the cursor moved to the center
• HTML Shortcuts
  • :html-anchor - Inserts a HTML anchor element, again with the clipboard used for the href attribute, and cursor moved the the body
  • Insert commonly used HTML tags, and move the cursor to the tag content where applicable
  • :hr --> <hr />
  • :br --> <br />
  • :dev --> <div>|</div>
  • :span --> <span>|</span>
  • :para --> <p>|</p>
  • :hr --> <h1>|</h1> (also :h2, :h3, :h4, :h5)
  • :tag Insert any custom XML or web component tag, a form will open where you can insert the element name
• Dates and Times
  • :date - Inserts the current date as dd/mm/yy
  • :time - Inserts the current time as hh:mm
  • :month - Inserts the current month and year, e.g. April 2021
• Lenny faces
  • :lenny - A dropdown menu will appear, from which you can select an ASCII text emoji, e.g. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
• Closures, type : followed by a bracket, quote or markup character, and the closing symbol will be inserted, and the cursor moved to the middle
  • :( --> (|)
  • :[ --> [|]
  • :{ --> {|}
  • :< --> <|>
  • :` --> `|`
  • :' --> '|'
  • :" --> "|"
  • :_ --> _|_
  • :* --> *|*
  • :- --> -|-
• Software Licenses
  • :mit-short - Inserts MIT license in format of Licensed under MIT X11, © [NAME] 2021: [URL or EMAIL]
  • :mit-long - Fetches and inserts full MIT license from a Gist URL
• CLI Commands
  • :commit - Inserts git commit command, with the cursor ready in the message flag
  • :wtc - Fetches and inserts a random, funny git commit message from whatthecommit.com
  • Note that there are much better methods for managing terminal commands, such as alliases
• Quick Search - Inserts the URL with search parameters, , use Ctrl + L to focus address bar
  • :srch-ddg - Searches DuckDuck Go --> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=
  • :srch-wiki - Searches Wikipedia --> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/?search=
  • :srch-gh - Searches GitHub --> https://github.com/search?q=
  • :srch-so - Searches StackOverflow --> https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=
  • :srch-dh - Searches Docker Hub --> https://hub.docker.com/search?q=
  • :srch-wa - Searches Wolframalpha --> https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=
  • :srch-red - Searches Reddit --> https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=
  • :srch-bbc - Searches BBC --> https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=
  • :srch-vt - Searches VirusTotal --> https://www.virustotal.com/gui/search/
  • :srch-amz - Searches Amzon --> https://amazon.co.uk/s?k=
  • :srch-yt - Searches YouTube --> https://youtube.com/results?q=
  • :srch-maps - Searches Google Maps --> https://www.google.com/maps/search/
  • :srch-goo - Searches The Google --> https://google.com/search?q=

Spelling Auto-Correct [alicia-auto-correct.yml]

This script simply replaces misspelled words with their correct spelling. The word list is based on the words that I personally most commonly mistype, but I have also comppiled a more generic list of 4,200 commonly mispelled English words.

E.g. ttyping lentgh will result in length

The word will not update until a terminator character (such as space or enter) is pressed (defined by word: true). The case will be propogated, (because propagate_case is set to true), so the output will match the case of the original word (either lower-case, upper-case or capitalized)

For more info on using Espanso for spelling corrections, see: https://listed.to/@lissy93/22944/spelling-auto-correct-system