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As long as the program accepts keyboard input or clipboard pasting, espanso should work correctly. There are some programs that behave a little bit differently (such as Thunderbird on Linux), that require a couple of configuration changes to work as expected (for example, slowing down the injections if the program is slow to process input).

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> for example, slowing down the injections if the program is slow to process input

It's 2021 and some people still don't separate UI into its own non-blocked thread.

E.g. When crunching a big dataset in QGIS (on Win10), every digit I type into "Classes" box [1] blocks everything and I have to wait.

[1] https://i.stack.imgur.com/oddT7.jpg

Yep, that often happens! I sometimes experience this behavior on Google Docs, especially on slower machines

Given the... average quality of software in 2021, I'm not sure you'd rather have intermittent crashes and freezes instead, because multithreading is notoriously tricky to get right --- and I'm saying this as someone who has worked in software for several decades.

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