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Autocorrect.py

Heavy user of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but can't be bothered to copy & paste it every time you want to use it? Autokey too capable for you? Then this is the perfect shitty one-day project for you!

Simply add a config file at ~/.config/autocorrect.conf containing a JSON object with the mapping from pattern to substitution and run this script.

Example:

{
    "dunnolol": "¯\\_(ツ)_/¯",
    "gal pals": "gal pals"
}

License

GPLv2 (I'm sorry).

Caveats

  • There's a ton of patterns that won't work, e.g. anything that requires modifier Keys to type.
  • Substitutions may trigger additional substitutions. I.e. setting up a substitution from "a" to "aa" is a bad idea.
  • Non-ascii characters are tricky to get working through keyboard events alone, so I've opted for sending Ctrl+Shift+u followed by the hexadecimal unicode codepoint and Space. This works in Gtk and Qt programs, but not everywhere (it doesn't work in Emacs and xterm for example).

(Note: the "accepted" way to work around this is to temporarily modify the keyboard mapping to include whatever unicode character is to be typed and wait a couple of milliseconds for the X server to catch up before typing it. That was a bit too icky for me)

...Basically, this thing's a rubber toy. Use it as an example if you must, but apart from that, you'd better use autokey

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