We are also planning a Mac Power Users episode around it. I’ll be writing and speaking more about the how and why of MultiMarkdown soon.
I realize this post is putting the cart before the horse.
TEXTEXPANDER EXPORT CODE
Begin Snippet Code -Īre you a Markdown nerd and using TextExpander? Let me know or, better yet, leave a comment and describe it for everyone. The second snippet creates the reference link. The first takes highlighted text in the body of your text and sets up the text and reference number. If you want to add a reference link later, I created two more snippets. The above workflow assumes you think of creating the link while you are typing. The Snippet should now look like this: - Begin Snippet Code. The first will hold the Link Text and the second will hold the Reference. Fire up TextExpander and follow along.Ĭreate a new snippet and start with two sets of brackets. Finally, it puts the cursor back at the end of your link text. This snippet, upon activation, asks you to insert the Link Text and Reference and then creates a Reference entry on the next line using the Web link from your clipboard. If you are thinking ahead while you write, you can do this all in one step. So I decided to take a page from Patrick’s playbook and create my own TextExpander snippet to create referenced links. The Web URL is the link you are pointing toward. The Link Text is the text that shows up on the page. The syntax for reference links in Markdown works as follows: First you type some Some folks do it at the end of the paragraph. Reference links can be set anywhere in the document. You can also use the same reference more than once. The advantage of using referenced links is that the text is much easier to read. Patrick puts his links right next to the linked words. I wrote the whole book in MultiMarkdown.*Īnyway, Patrick’s video got me thinking. Variant), which lets me export to nearly any format and write on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac without friction. Like Patrick, I write everything in Markdown (although I use the MultiMarkdown There are some formating issues that doesn’t work when expanding in a cell in MS Excel so I thought Keyboard Maestro might be a bit more tweaky and allow me to have multiple formats in a cell for a text expantion, I will play with your macro and see what I can figure out.Patrick Rhone (from MinimalMac) did his first screencast this week about creating a Text Expander snippet for Markdown links. Thanks Peter for all your posts and comments, good to better understand Keyboard Maestro and that it stores a single file which in the back of my mind already knew. I do like keeping the sorting separate having it in TextExpander with its own preferences and not in Keyboard Maestro and the syncing keyboards through dropbox on iOS is very nice.
TEXTEXPANDER EXPORT SOFTWARE
I have 3,779 TextExpander snippets and though TextExpander is still working it has become yet another dead software that I will probably cling to for years until I make the switch to something else like I am still doing with QuicKeys. TextExpander’s new modle seems way over priced and it has no customer loyaty value (though there was a discount for the initial “upgrade”). It causes a change in me wanting to even use it, software subscriptions really bother me. TextExpander subscription news causes a change I did have one customer who has 300MB macro files (not because of expansions, he stored lots of images in the macros) and he had performance issues in the editor which did not surprise me. A very slow Mac or a vert slow harddisk might make for more problems. Even 6000 probably wouldn't be too bad - but I have a fast Mac with a fusion drive. That said, if you have a SSD, that would make those file writes much faster and might well significantly reduce the issue.Įach simple typed string macro occupies about 200 bytes, so 600 expansion macros would be around 120K, and my own macro file is around 1Meg, so I doubt that would cause any problems. Since the macro file is read and written as a single complete file every time you make a change to your macros, if it gets significantly large that can cause a performance problem with the editor. The only real limitation with having large numbers of text expansion macros is the cost in terms of the macro file size. Keyboard Maestro can handle text expansions, and hundreds is no real problem (thousands would be a push, and many thousands would be a bad idea). There is no real change in Keyboard Maestro's position.
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