User:Slevers/sandbox

About Slevers I have been using computers since the 70's, back in the day of keypunch cards. But the Fortran class I took taught me that the science was not yet mature enough for me. I came back in the early 80's, with the introduction of Comodor 64 and the IBM PC. I got a clone and learned BASIC. I taught in a Computer training firm for a while, just before the launch of Windows 95. I later studied DOS, dBASE, Pascal, C, perl, HTML, CSS, and a few others. Never got very good at any of them.

My latest fascination is with small Hotkey utilities and Text expander for which there is no pages

--Slevers (talk) 00:15, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

=Text Expander=

Text Expander is a software utility to expand text into a document when you send a trigger. The trigger may be either a keyword (like .expandMe) or a hotkey combination (Ctrl-Alt-E) You need to configure it. You might assign your signature to mySig = Sincerly, \n\n Terrence B. Jones. When you type mySig at the end of your document, it would replace it with Sincerly, \n\n Terrence B. Jones.

Text Expander Applications

 * TyperText
 * HotKeyP
 * Text Expander ???

My Help Section

 * 1) You need more than 3 section headings to get automated TOC on top.
 * 2) Bulleted lists from * and numbered lists from # at front of line
 * 3) Can you see this indent more than the above? Nope. Spaces after the symbol are optional 0-4 or more.
 * 4) Remember the Help at top of the Editor window, it's a pop down.
 * 5) Leading spaces allow for Quoted text or code, shows in a box.
 * 6) Headings may have 1-5 = for H1-H5 ===Like this for H3===
 * 7) Indented number with two or more #
 * 8) Indent text, in TALK, with 1 or more colon :
 * 9) I'm NOT at all clear on Footnotes, Files and References in Wiki. Where do I upload files?
 * 10) Big and Small text tags are not big enough to even use.
 * 11) Using ((TOC right)) is great, moving to right is easier to read. (Double Braces)
 * 12) Piped Link, pipe between Wiki Page and My Text: How to set up a coffee house
 * 13) Help:Link is good Help page and Cheat Sheet too: Cheatsheet And Help: Magic Words H:MW

gallery> File:Example.jpg|Caption1 File:Example.jpg|Caption2 /gallery> Slevers (talk) 00:15, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
 * See this triple colon indent?

Variable in Text Expansion
Some programs allow for certain variables to be used in your text expansion. Some do not. If they do, they may show up in the form of %, such as %c, or

Macro Commands
You may also be able to send macro commands, in the form of \command, such as \backspace, which would delete the last character typed.