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Show HN: macOS compose sequences via text snippets

1•hberrg•1h ago
I’ve recently read this [1] post about the compose key on linux which I thought it was pretty cool and I was looking for something similar on macOs.

One issue with apps emulating the linux default input way [compose-key] + [sequence keys] was that im a clumsy typer and so i’d rather see what im typing before its replaced with the result of the compose sequence. Since I’m a dev but i haven’t had much experience coding in swift i thought i would see if i can use claude code to create an app for myself to use compose sequences via text snippets.

The result is SnippetCompose: https://github.com/horstf/SnippetCompose

This way I can input compose sequences but see the input and correct myself, for example typing ::C= will be replaced with €.

[1] https://crescentro.se/posts/compose-key/

Comments

marssaxman•1h ago
That's funny. As a linux user, I sometimes wish I could use the much more convenient scheme from Mac OS instead of the clunky unix-style compose-key system.
hberrg•11m ago
Are you talking about the popup symbol picker? I used to do it like that and I think that one is nice if you use special characters occasionally but gets tedious fast if you have to use it often. I used to default to trying to remember the key combinations (esp for typing umlauts on american keyboards) or having snippets in Raycast for often used ones but having the standard compose options seems even more useful.

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