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Comment by yewenjie | Hacker News Reader

What do people use Espanso for? I like the idea of the project but never really found a good use case for? The only thing I expand so far (using custom QMK setup on the keyboard itself) is my email.

Also, is there any package that lets you cycle between your clipboard as you type anywhere?

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The Hub [1] is a good source of inspiration if you're curious :)

[1]: https://hub.espanso.org/search

> cycle between your clipboard

I'm not sure what you mean but if you want really nice clipboard management, with great UX, CLI and scripting capabilities, check out CopyQ[1]. Have been using it for a year and love it.

1: https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/

I have previously enjoyed CopyQ. However, now I use a more minimal setup that uses rofi. By cycling through I meant this - I paste something from clipboard using a keybind, and then trigger keybind that erases the pasted thing and inserts the previous element from the clipboard and so on.

I have a lot of long strings I type at work (like paths I cd to often, urls, etc). I've abbreviated most of them to 3-4 letters with Espanso. I've tried using some of the fancy form building stuff but it seemed a bit rough still (although I'm still on 0.7.3)

One of my most common workflow is I copy the name of a "resource" and have to type out some diagnostic queries.

So I have espanso trigger on a shortcut and autofill queries with the clipboard being used as a placeholder.

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