Mix your text editor's tab-able placeholders with Alfred snippets to make form letters.

[Opher]

I wanted to use BBEdit in conjunction with Alfred to make a Text Expander-esque forms/form letters. Where you tab from item to item and fill it in.

 

The editor you use is configurable, I tried to use the EDITOR environmental variable but got a permissions error. I'm not sure why that would be. Configuring it explicitly -along with the bundle id- is probably preferable anyway.

 

It's less of a workflow and more a couple Prefabs (great new feature).

 

I'm kind of proud of the icon 😏

 

https://github.com/CiiDub/Form-Snippets

 

 

 

Edited July 25, 2022 by Opher

[vitor]

10 hours ago, Opher said:

I tried to use the EDITOR environmental variable but got a permissions error.

 

Alfred doesn’t load your shell’s startup files. See Understanding the scripting environment.