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How to assign a text phrase to a shortcut?

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bushveld
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Hello

I like to assign shortcuts for often used text passages. In KDE3 there is an option in the systemsettings -> keycombinations to do this. Here the description form KDE3:

After pressing Alt+Ctrl+H, 'Hello' input will be simulated just like if you typed it. Especially useful if you're lazy to type things like 'unsigned'. Every keypress in the input is separated by a colon ':' . Note that the keypresses mean really keypresses, so you have to write what you'd really press on the keyboard. In the table below, left column shows the input and the right column shows what to type.

"enter" (i.e. new line) Enter or Return
a (i.e. small a) A
A (i.e. capital a) Shift+A
: (colon) Shift+;
' ' (space) Space


The same dialog is available in KDE4 also my old settings are available but I can not make any change or create new settings. Since all fieds are just grey. I this not implemented yet?

Thanks a lot
-bushveld


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I believe this was handled by KHotkeys, which was refactored for 4.2 to fix problems that plagued it since KDE 4.0. I think that this refactor did not have all the functionality the previous one had implemented. Thus it is likely unimplemented at this time.


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