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hello

it would be great if EmEditor had an autocorrect feature that supports wildcards/regex

it will replace specific text on the fly, as you type

many other programs have suck feature, but they lack wildcard/regex support and thus its very limited

thanks

[Yutaka Emura]

Thanks for your request!

[Meir]

Five years passed by and no one seconded this request??? I can’t believe this!

I am talking about something akin to Word’s AutoCorrect, albeit not with all the bells and whistles there. Just a simple substitute of a word (not part of a word!) as you type. An ESC would undo the substitution.

This is great in cases like this:
* Type an unlikely small string and it will be substituted by a (much longer) one;
* Substitute a string by a non-keyboard character, e.g., type << and it will be substituted by '«'

And there are many more!

Yes, all these can be done by current features too but the AutoCorrect is a lot easier and intuitive!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello mguttman,

I believe the Snippets plug-in allows you to do the same thing. Please let me know if you try Snippets plug-in but can’t figure out how to use it.

Thanks!

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