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"
}GPLv2 (I'm sorry).
- 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