[Keyboard manager] allow to assign shortcut or key to a string

[Fabrice-Deshayes-aka-Xtream]

allow to assign shortcut or key to a string

It would be nice to improve keyboard manager to allow us to assign a shortcut/key to a string.

An exemple of problem it can solve : for markdown stuff, we have to use often tree backticks. It's not a problem on english qwerty keyboard, but for french azerty keyboard (and probably other non english keyboards), it's a real pain.

• We have to use [ALT GR] + [7] + then [space] ton generate a single backtick.
• We have to use [ALT GR] + [7] +[ALTR GR] + [7] +[ALTR GR] + [7] + then [space] to generate three backticks.

So we could for example use [CTRL] + [7] to generate 3 backticks. And if I always write "Regards," at the end of my email, I could assign [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[R] to the string "Regards," and save time.

I think that it's a simple way of working and can help in various situations and not only help frenchies developers with the three backticks markdown stuffs :-)

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[Aaron-Junker]

Duplicate of #6976

If I'm wrong please reopen this issue and tell us why this issue is different.

Please check in the future for duplicates before making a issue. Thank you!

[Fabrice-Deshayes-aka-Xtream]

Hello. I'm sorry, I don't see a button to re-open this issue :-(

the #6976 is about mapping a key to a character which is not available on the keyboard, this one is about mapping a key to a string (several characters). It's not the same thing (this issue can resolve the #6976, the opposite is not true).

[Aaron-Junker]

Oh im sorry

[saahmedm]

this is a duplicate of #1207, correct?

[Fabrice-Deshayes-aka-Xtream]

you're right, sorry. i'll thumb up the #1207