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Lovewinniethepooh
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 Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:17 am Post subject: Condition to limit expansion of hotstring |
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Hi, I have tried to figure this out and can't - I would like to have my hotstrings only expand when there is a blank space (whitespace?) before them, i.e. when I have ly as a hotstring expand to layer and I type bilateral, forget to add the ly, backspace to the end of bilateral and add the ly, I get bilaterallayer. I want to have the program realize there is a typed character previous to the cursor's position and temporarily "suspend", for lack of a better word, the hotstring. I have a problem also that may be similar or related to this when I am in my work program (medical transcription) and in a certain comment box area I go to and try to enter a hotstring but I have to space away from the left margin a character for the hotstring to expand itself, does anyone know why? Thanks in advance.  |
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tonne
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:00 am Post subject: |
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The first issue is probably as:
| Code: | ; a question mark makes the hotstring trigger even inside other words
; can even be specifed with the #hotstring directive
; :?:ly::layer
; this requires the preceeding char to be non-alphanumeric
::ly::layer |
Better show the offending script.
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Lovewinniethepooh
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Hello, I will post the one I think I had it in but just to clarify, I was not using the question mark option with the hotstring, just a regular ::ly::layer hotstring. I am pretty sure using that causes the hotstring to expand regardless of where it is in a word and I didn't want that to happen. Thanks for your reply. |
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