How to escape "," in dynamic snippets?

[firesofmay]

Hi,

 

I'd like to do the following in snippets:

 

{random:You are amazing, thank you, Thank you}

 

i..e "You are amazing, thank you" OR "Thank you" one of the two should be pasted. But how do I escape the comma?

[vitor]

I’ve made a few tests and was unsuccessful, and the documentation doesn’t mention it. Looks as if it can’t be done as of now — moving to the feature requests forum.

[deanishe]

36 minutes ago, vitor said:

I’ve made a few tests and was unsuccessful

 

Same as that. When using such a common character as the comma as a delimiter, it really needs to be possible to escape it with a backslash or a double comma.

[SummerChill]

On 7/20/2019 at 1:59 AM, deanishe said:

Same as that

I use snippet to help me remember many linux commands, such as setting ps -ef | grep {clipboard}, if the value of the clipboard contains points, for example, I run a shell called b.sh,  "ps -ef | grep b.sh" will also filter out /bin/bash and other information. The correct one should be "b\ .sh". I hope sinppet can provide escape transform utility .

[deanishe]

7 hours ago, SummerChill said:

The correct one should be "b\ .sh".

 

I wouldn’t hold out much hope for this one. Escaping is for writing coding, and I don’t think code-formatting features really belong in Alfred’s macro expansion. A lot of fields support macro expansion, so you’re kinda asking for every text field to be changed because the text might end up as an argument in a shell.

 

I think a more appropriate approach would be to write a workflow that formats the text on the clipboard according to whatever rules. Perhaps add a Script/List Filter to the workflow so you can choose different escaping schemes (bash, grep etc.).

 

Perhaps add a Hotkey (say ⌥⌘C) that pastes the clipboard contents escaped for a shell.

Edited November 8, 2020 by deanishe

[SummerChill]

22 hours ago, deanishe said:

Perhaps add a Script/List Filter to the workflow so you can choose different escaping schemes (bash, grep etc.).

@deanishe Thanks for your reply, I will use this method to handle characters that need to be escaped.