December 19th, 2012· Fix potential ordering issue with snippets containing %key:tab%
· Other minor fixes and improvements
December 17th, 2012· Supports Cut, Copy and Paste to manipulate snippets in the outline
· Adds popover to resolve snippet abbreviation conflicts
· Duplicate snippets are drawn with blue abbreviation (vs. orange for conflicts)
· Adds “expand abbreviation ''” syntax to AppleScript expand command
· Restores support for %j day-of-year macro
· Other fixes and improvements
December 17th, 2012· Don't confirm Delete of an empty snippet
· Fixes an issue where '%%' did not get mapped to '%'
· Fixes a crash where snippets marked as formatted but not containing any formatted text data could cause snippets to disappear at launch
November 14th, 2012· Fixes issue with TextExpander icon appearing twice in the Dock on restart
· Applies per-application restrictions when expanding snippets within the fill-in window
· Adds “expand” command to AppleScript vocabulary, allowing scripts to trigger expansion of a snippet
· Other minor fixes and improvements
October 11th, 2012· Fixes issue when %key:return% or %key:enter% appear at the end of a snippet
October 10th, 2012· Avoids expanding “extra” line breaks when optional parts of a fill-in are not checked
· Restores ability to click to expand snippets found by Suggest Matching Abbreviation
· Fixes expansion of formatted snippets containing keypresses into Mail messages
· Other minor fixes and improvements
August 7th, 2012· Restores transparency to menu bar icon
· Makes checkbox label clickable for optional section fill-ins
· Equality abbreviations in Symbol group now end with == (e.g. >==,
June 24th, 2012· Supports default values for text and popup fill-ins
· Edit fill-ins and options with popup interface
· Expand snippets while using fill-ins
· Switch apps while using fill-ins
· Improves statistics with graphical display
· Introduces hands-on tutorial for new users
· Adds support for table expansion
· Adds contextual menus to snippet editor and snippet list
· Adds appearance preference to show main window at launch
· Updates appearance for Lion and Mountain Lion
· Adds support for high-resolution Retina displays
· Adds French and German autocorrect groups
· Many other minor fixes and improvements
Adds new fill-in types:
· Multiple line text fields
· Popup menus
· Optional text sections
March 10th, 2012· Fixes Sort by Content
· Fixes issue with embedded AppleScript snippets that don't return strings
· Adds “restore clipboard regardless” property to AppleScript for TextMate 1.5.10 users
· Other fixes and improvements to memory use
December 7th, 2011· Adds “Sharing Snippet Groups with Your Team” help section
· Adds Tweet My Stats button to the Statistics window
· Supports selecting local Dropbox folder for Dropbox 1.2 and later
· Allows selecting “Other…” application when specifying applications
· Improves double-click behavior for .textexpander files
· Adds QuickLook support for .textexpander files
· Other fixes and improvements
October 26th, 2011· Fixes issue with updating snippets and settings via Dropbox
· Nested plain text snippets now take formatting from the snippet in which they are nested
· Fixes various interface display issues
· Suppresses expansion when using input methods which combine keystrokes
· Fixes font sizing issue when key presses are used
· Improved handling when Dropbox folder is not in Home folder
· Other minor fixes and improvements
September 29th, 2011· Fixed font size mismatch in Mail
· Fixed issue with formatted text fill-ins
· Fixed issue with disabled expansion after using Mission Control
· Fixed issue expanding in some file dialogs (e.g. Preview, TextEdit)
· Added additional logging to help diagnose outstanding issues
· Other fixes and improvements
August 11th, 2011· Fixes delimiter handling in Safari 5.1 on Lion and Snow Leopard
· Fixes key press handling in Safari 5.1 on Lion and Snow Leopard
· Fixes cursor handling in Safari 5.1 on Lion and Snow Leopard
· Retains proper font size when expanding into Microsoft Word
· Other minor fixes and improvements
· Note: Expanding into password fields on Safari 5.1 does not function properly
May 17th, 2011· Fixes problem with creating new AppleScript snippets
· Fixes terminology conflict with 'AppleScript' which caused some scripts to fail
· No longer requires escaping % character in AppleScripts and shell scripts
· Works with latest Lion developer preview
April 20th, 2011· Introduces AppleScript support
· Adds Backup Now, Restore, and Logging as customizable toolbar items
· Adds support for guillemets «» as delimiter characters
· Allows keypress macros (tab, return, esc, enter) to be nested in fill-in snippets
· Automatic capitalization at sentence start now works with contractions of "I" (I'm, I'll, I'd, etc.)
· Other fixes and improvements
February 22nd, 2011· New and improved HTML & CSS snippet group
· Adds display font setting for plain text snippets
· Adds default font setting for formatted text snippets
· Makes secure input warning less intrusive and less frequent
February 3rd, 2011· Adds Spanish localization
· Adds option to eliminate double caps at the start of words
· Adds warning info when secure event input is enabled
· Improves compatibility with VoiceOver
· Other fixes and improvements
December 14th, 2010· Improves automatic capitalization
· Adds options for as few as 5 backup files
· Improved handling of Dropbox syncing
· Other minor fixes and improvements
October 26th, 2010· Adds backup and restore
· Adds preference for automatic backup
· Adds keyboard shortcuts to expand top search results
· Fixes some problems with establishing Dropbox sync
· Other fixes and improvements
June 2nd, 2010· Added hotkeys to activate TextExpander and to open the Search Snippets function
· Allows hiding Dock icon without showing TextExpander in the menu bar
· Improved search by highlighting matched text and searching snippet label text
· Supports typing by mouse with Keyboard Viewer or Virtual Keyboard
· Improved cursor position handling in Google Chrome and Firefox
· Other fixes and improvements
March 18th, 2010· Fixes cursor position at beginning of snippet
· Snippets respect sort order for drag and drop
· Other minor fixes and improvements
December 27th, 2009· Fixes cursor position at beginning of snippet.
· Snippets respect sort order for drag and drop.
· Other minor fixes and improvements.
December 3rd, 2009· Use rich text snippets in web apps (for example, signatures in Gmail).
· Revised purchase reminder alert.
· Make a selection using % in conjunction with %| cursor positioning.
· Other minor fixes and improvements.
October 22nd, 2009· Imports Spell Catcher shorthand files (exported in XML format)
· Supports plain text snippets nested in AppleScript and shell script snippets
· Fixed some problems with Mobile Me synchronization
· Fixed split view slider in Snippets tab for Snow Leopard
· Fixed memory leak / performance problem with large clipboards
· Fixed cursor positioning at end of snippet (%, %^, %v)
· Fixed problem when Key Repeat Delay is set to None
August 24th, 2009· Share snippet groups with TextExpander touch for the iPhone, to be released August 26.
· Fixes occasional stalling under Snow Leopard.
· Other fixes and improvements.
July 15th, 2009· Added Sort by Label.
· Fixed dead key handling (e.g., use ä or Polyphonic Greek characters as abbreviations).
· Made improvements in preparation for Snow Leopard.
· Minor fixes and improvements.
May 20th, 2009· Improved menu performance on Leopard (10.5).
· Reduced memory usage on Leopard.
· Fixed rich text import.
· Other minor fixes and improvements.
March 27th, 2009· Fix problem with Adapt to Case.
March 25th, 2009Per-group expansion options for greater flexibility:
· Expand after whitespace (default).
· Expand after anything but letters & numbers.
· Expand after any character.
· Setting for clipboard restore delay.
· WPM setting for more accurate statistics.
· Fixes problem where formatted text was pasted for some plain text snippets.
· Other minor fixes and improvements.
February 18th, 2009· Shell script snippets, which expand to the result of the script
· Respects default formatting when creating snippets from clipboard or selection
· Fixed problem with updating URL groups
· Other minor fixes and improvements
January 28th, 2009· AppleScript results are pasted in plain text so that they adopt the current formatting.
· Nested AppleScript snippets now function properly.
· Snippet list retains outline expansion and selection better (no more collapsing unexpectedly).
· Fixed hanging problem when used with PopChar X.
October 29th, 2008· Date math (add or subtract years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds from current time).
· Internet productivity group (shorten URLs, etc.).
· Symbols group (command, option, copyright, trademark, Euro, Pound, etc.).
· Fixed %- and %+ to abandon or keep delimiter on a per-snippet basis.
· Other fixes and improvements.
August 18th, 2008· Fix problem with ignore case setting for abbreviations.
August 12th, 2008· Adds menu bar menu improvements (including navigation by keyboard).
· Displays snippet group contents in the insertion submenu.
· Other changes.
July 23rd, 2008· Added Accented Words snippet group
· Expands to fit wider System Preferences window on Leopard
· Fixed filtering of abbreviations and snippets
· Fixed some case-sensitivity problems on Tiger
· Other minor fixes and improvements
May 21st, 2008· Adds predefined group for CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
· Limits "Adapt to Case" to lowercase snippets
· Limits "Adapt to Case" to abbreviations with two or more characters
· Disables expansion when shift-space is typed
· Works properly with MacSpeech Dictate
April 30th, 2008· Fixes post-expansion cursor positioning
· Handles delimiters using the shift key properly
· Supports fully empty snippet list
· Minor fixes and improvements
April 22nd, 2008· Improves performance and reliability for fast typists
· Remembers open groups in Preference pane
· Preserves format when creating snippets from selection or Clipboard
· Allows single character abbreviations
· Fixes problem expanding when there are multiple nested snippets
· Minor fixes and improvements
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