Comments on: How I Can Code Twice As Fast As You

By: Agata

Agata — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:15:17 +0000

So nice! Thank you, this idea is great!

Heard too much about the TextExpander snippets (,HTML) and forgot about ZenCoding.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:24:28 +0000

Texter looks promising, but I am have a trouble adding a curly bracket in the hotstring script. How to do that?

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:20:30 +0000

Whoa, I just looked up the price of the G15 keyboard mentioned in the above post and it’s 250 bucks used on Amazon. An there’s only 2 left! I guess they stopped making the good model with 3×18 programmable keys for a crappier one that only has 6 hotkeys. Weak!

I’ve come to rely on my hotkeys and when this keyboard eventually wears out, I’m gonna be in trouble.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:12:27 +0000

Using dedicated soft-keys is an even better solution for most applications. I have the incredibly awesome Logitech G15 keyboard with 3 sets of 18 programmable keys. You can set keystrokes, scripts, or macros to each key. Some of the functions I use most are:

*Show Desktop
*Minimize/Maximize
*Zoom in/Zoom out (especially useful for Photoshop, Illustrator, Browsers, etc..)
*Move window to other monitor
*Launch Browser
*Username {TAB} Password {TAB} {ENTER} for secure logins that don’t allow your browser to remember passwords, like banks
*stop();
*gotoAndStop();
*My email address

You get the idea. Instead of remembering a keyword, typing it in and then pressing TAB, you just press one hot-key. This limits the risk of accidentally keying in a hotscript. The drawback is that you can only set a total of 54 macros. If you need more than that (which I haven’t yet), you can then start using Text Expander or whatever.

I’m really surprised that this technology isn’t more popular. I use it constantly and will never go back to a regular keyboard. In fact, I broke my last G15 by spilling a bunch of crap in it and immediately bought an identical replacement.

G15 Keyboard by Logitech:
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/photoshop-blog/07/07/logitech-g15-keyboard.html

By: Jeffrey Karbowski

Jeffrey Karbowski — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:39:02 +0000

Created Texter bundles based on Sergey Chikuyonok’s Zen Coding plugins.
http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/

Texter Bundle based on ZenCSS :
http://texterbundles.googlecode.com/files/ZenCSS.texter

and.

Texter Bundle based on ZenHTML:
http://texterbundles.googlecode.com/files/ZenHTML.texter

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:15:02 +0000

Hi all, I wrote a text expander for Windows a few months ago called Breevy (click my username next to this post for the website).

In addition to some other cool stuff, it lets you position the cursor after the expansion (use the %(cursor) macro) and you can also insert the clipboard contents dynamically in the expanded text as well (use the %(clipboard) macro).

So you can do something like: [html][body]%(cursor)[/body][/html] and in the expansion, the cursor will automatically be placed between the tags.

Breevy’s in active development, so if you have a feature suggestion, feel free to tell me about it.

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By: Ariah Fine

Ariah Fine — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:27:27 +0000

I’m interested! email me if you don’t mind ariahfine at gmail

By: Ariah Fine

Ariah Fine — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:24:54 +0000

Mind re uploading your bundle? I’d love to use it but the link appears to be dead.

By: Fábio Antunes

Fábio Antunes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:17:20 +0000

You guys say Linux sucks, but I’m sure that you mean a specific Linux Distro (Distribution such as Debian, Ubuntu, …), not Linux it self, in that case i know there is some distros that aren’t very good, but in other hand there is some that are really good, all depends on what you like and need to work / play.

Regards