jacobjohansen/espanso

Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

A cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

Visit the espanso website.

What is a Text Expander?

A text expander is a program that detects when you type a specific keyword and replaces it with something else. This is useful in many ways:

• Save a lot of typing, expanding common sentences.
• Create system-wide code snippets.
• Execute custom scripts
• Use emojis like a pro.

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Key Features

• Works on Windows, macOS and Linux
• Works with almost any program
• Works with Emojis 😄
• Works with Images
• Date expansion support
• Custom scripts support
• Shell commands support
• App-specific configurations
• Expandable with packages
• Built-in package manager for espanso hub
• File based configuration

Get Started

Visit the official documentation.

Support

If you need some help to setup espanso, want to ask a question or simply get involved in the community, Join the official Subreddit! :)

Donations

espanso is a free, open source software developed in my (little) spare time. If you liked the project and would like to support further development, please consider making a small donation, it really helps :)

Contributors

Many people helped the project along the way, thanks to all of you. In particular, I want to thank:

• Scrumplex - Official AUR repo mantainer and Linux Guru
• Luca Antognetti - Linux and Windows Tester
• Matteo Pellegrino - MacOS Tester
• Timo Runge - MacOS contributor
• NickSeagull - Contributor
• matt-h - Contributor

Remarks

• Thanks to libxdo and xclip, used to implement the Linux port.
• Thanks to the ModifyPath script, used by espanso to improve the Windows installer.

License

espanso was created by Federico Terzi and is licensed under the GPL-3.0 license.