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Abbreviation embedding / nesting in Breevy 3.18.

New in Breevy 3.18 is the ability to "embed" abbreviations within another, using the %(Abbreviation) -- or %(Abbrev) for short -- macro.

For example, say you have an abbreviation, myname, with the replacement text John Doe (or whatever your name is).

You can then have another abbreviation, for example ggreet, with the following replacement text:

Howdy, my name is %(Abbrev myname). How's it going?

Which Breevy would expand to (assuming the abbreviation myname's replacement text is set to John Doe): Howdy, my name is John Doe. How's it going?

Instead of %(Abbreviation) or %(Abbrev), you can also use %snippet% -- which is the syntax used in TextExpander -- and it'll work exactly the same.

Posted by Patrick on January 19, 2011 at 3:28pm | 0 Comments
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