Texpander is a simple text expander for Linux.
It is sort of like AutoKey, except it works from text files that you put in your ~/.texpander directory. The text expansion files can be organized in subdirectories. Name the files in the format of abbreviation where the filename is the thing you want to type and the content of the file is what you want to have pasted into your document.
Texpander is a bash script that uses xclip, xdotool, and zenity to let you type an abbreviation for something and it expands to whatever you have in the matching text file.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/leehblue/texpander
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Developer: Lee Blue
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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