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| As above, typing Shift-Space will cancel the sequence, as will any control key or command key (eg Command-.), any macro execution, switching applications, clicking the mouse, or not typing for more than a few seconds. | As above, typing Shift-Space will cancel the sequence, as will any control key or command key (eg Command-.), any macro execution, switching applications, clicking the mouse, or not typing for more than a few seconds. | ||
| - | You can optionally allow typed string triggers to work regardless of case, regardless of diacriticals, or to remember the case of the typed string and mimic the case in any Insert Text actions. You can limit the typed string trigger to only work after a word break (which means any non-alphanumeric character, or any case that cancels the sequence as described above). | + | You can optionally allow typed string triggers to work regardless of case, regardless of diacriticals. |
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| + | You can have the case of the typed string and affect Insert Text actions. This means that if you type the string in all uppercase, the resulting Insert Text will also be uppercased. If you type just the first letter in uppercase, just the first resulting Insert Text will be uppercase. | ||
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| + | You can limit the typed string trigger to only work after a word break (which means any non-alphanumeric character, or any case that cancels the sequence as described above). **Note** that this means the match will happen only after you type a word break and then the Typed String - Keyboard Maestro des not know what you will type in the future so it cannot restrict matches to only happen if you plan to type a word break next. | ||
| Alternatively, you can use a [[:Regular Expressions|regular expression]] to match a trigger. The trigger is matched against the end of the typing sequence, so there is an implicit \z on the end of the [[:Regular Expressions|regular expression]]. Note that it would be useless to try to match a word break at the end with \b or some sort of positive or negative lookahead assertion as the typing sequence always ends at the current character. So for example "ell\b" would match "hell" even if the next character you planned on typing was an "o". | Alternatively, you can use a [[:Regular Expressions|regular expression]] to match a trigger. The trigger is matched against the end of the typing sequence, so there is an implicit \z on the end of the [[:Regular Expressions|regular expression]]. Note that it would be useless to try to match a word break at the end with \b or some sort of positive or negative lookahead assertion as the typing sequence always ends at the current character. So for example "ell\b" would match "hell" even if the next character you planned on typing was an "o". | ||
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