Version 4.2

MacReleased December 5, 2013

  • Improves expansion in Google Documents in Safari
  • Improves interaction with Fast User Switching
  • Improves handling of accented letters in Search Snippets and Suggest Matching Abbreviation
  • Presents currently-running apps first when choosing app-specific expansion
  • Displays URL or file path of external Snippet Groups when selected
  • Fixes tabbing in fill-in windows without text fields
  • Works around Mavericks issue which allows Smart Quotes despite our setting to the contrary
  • Numerous additional fixes and enhancements
  • Fixes problem introduced in 4.1/4.1.1 with non-capitalizable abbreviations such as “.dl” being treated as capitalized for “Adapt to Case” snippets [851]
  • Restores initial keyboard focus in fill-in window without text fields lost in 4.1 [850]
  • Changes abbreviation replacement in some web browser “unibars” to reduce problems where part of the snippet abbreviation is not removed
  • Improves interaction with Fast User Switching, especially when Dropbox Sync is being used [352]
  • Fixes long-standing bug which could change the plain version of a “Formatted text, pictures” snippet to some other snippet’s text
  • Repairs snippets with mis-matched plain/formatted content (creates “RepairedSnippets_[datestamp]” file in [home] / Application Support / TextExpander)
  • Defaults to automatic Backup being enabled
  • Presents currently-running apps first when choosing application-specific expansion (hold down Option when opening window to include menu bar accessory-type applications)
  • Displays URL or file path of external Snippet Groups when selected
  • Improves handling of accented letters in Search Snippets and Suggest Matching Abbreviation, and multi-word searches now find all words in any order [785, 612]
  • Works around Mavericks issue which allows Smart Quotes despite our setting to the contrary
  • Changes date math scanning to allow the – in “%@+1D-” to be output.
  • Allows embedding snippets within embedded script snippets
  • Provides non-embedded AppleScript snippets the actual entered/triggering abbreviation in the on textexpander(abrv) handler
  • Allows script snippets to return %|, %, and %key: macros
  • Improves handling of and notification about script snippets that take longer than 5 seconds to complete
  • Restores pasteboard immediately if any Command+keystroke is received after an expansion (before Restore clipboard delay)
  • Improves expansion in Google Documents in Safari [866]
  • Adds “Open TextExpander” button to Edit Last Snippet window to allow editing the snippet in the main TextExpander window
  • Cancels any open fill-in window if Create Snippet or Edit Last Expanded Snippet window opens
  • Displays snippet formatting in fill-in window when “Include HTML data” is not enabled
  • Changes Secure Input presentation in the status menu to clarify that the other application is enabling it
  • Avoids accessing certain types of slow or unstable pasteboard data for Restore clipboard according to a new AppleScript-able setting
  • Stops Mavericks from logging “Using your own bundle identifier […] does not make sense and will not work.” message at launch
  • Fixes instability that sometimes resulted from timeouts when determining the text focus