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by sixstringtheory 1589 days ago
For those on macOS/iOS, using custom text expansions [0] also helps to do this without having to leave the doc you’re editing. I’ve built up tons of these over the years for things like ⌘ (“commandkey”) → (“rightarrow”) (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ (“tableflip”) and of course, a party parrot wave for Slack (“parrotwave” → :parrotwave1::parrotwave2::parrotwave3::parrotwave4::parrotwave5::parrotwave6::parrotwave7:). They can sync over iCloud and you can export/import them with plists.

I now want to add table characters like these, just need to come up with a good naming convention…

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh35735/12.0/...

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Did you override the hotkey to go to the end of a line for an emoticon? Or are those 3 different examples?
They’re different examples.