Handy tool:Autokey

[viking60]

I find Autokey to be one very handy and practical tool. This program simply automates phrases that you write a lot or scripts - or whatever.

And it works all over the place in Gedit Firefox, the Konsole - it does not matter.
In the Terminal/Konsole we have the alias option but you can use Autokey as well.'

So you can write "bas" and it wil automatically be replaced by this line #!/bin/bash.
That makes it easier to start a script in the Terminal with nano or vim, but it will worke in gedit or any editor.

Do you write a lot of phrases here? Automate them with Autokey.

I have made a phrase that pops up every time I write "sign". Namely my signature

John Berserk Doe
Milkyway 16
12345 Uranus

Telephone: 12345678
Mobile: 910111213

And it pops up in Libreoffice, here, gedit or in the terminal. I will not be repeating much in the future - I have Autokey for that.
Here is a video - the installation part is Ubuntu specific, but the use is the same.

You could get the html infrastructure by writig "html" or asign it to a key combination. The posibilities are endless. And this thing is really practical - I promise

More here

[rolf]

Yes, that looks handy

Let me see if I understand how this works

Subject: Tip for the young driver
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:23:20 -0800
From: Uncle Berserk <jbdoe@svenski.com>
To: Nephew Berserk <nephew@valhalla.com>

Dear Olaf,
What do you do when you are driving and you come to a STOP
John Berserk Doe
Milkyway 16
12345 Uranus

Telephone: 12345678
Mobile: 910111213
?

Why, you stop, of course!
Good luck for the future!
Your Uncle

[viking60]

I knew it - you have been using it all along. The date is nicely inserted, so you know about the scripts too.
Edit:
Have you got this thing working in Mandriva?