Snippets require a space before the snippet to do substitution

[AndyP]

I have snippets set up to type various symbols:

 

™

→

←

…

But I have a few issues with these:

 

1. These substitutions seem to require a space or a punctuation mark BEFORE what I type

2. When this substitution happens, deletes the punctuation mark most of the time

3. When I want to type …, I usually need to type the period 4 times, and the first period does not get deleted. I need to go back manually and delete it.

 

Also, while typing this message on this forum, some substitutions wiped out the entire line I was typing on.

 

As an example, if I type:

 

It's Magic:tm:

 

You can see no substitution happened.  But when I type:

 

It's Magic ™

 

I get the substitution, but then I need to go back and delete the space.

Edited August 3, 2023 by AndyP

[AndyP]

Ok, I figured it out.

 

I needed to turn on "expand snippets in mid string."

 

I'm still getting weird behavior, but it seems to be isolated to Firefox.

 

I'm in Safari now and everything seems to work fine. But in Firefox, if I type →, it doesn't show up. If I do it again, then it shows up, but at the beginning of the post. But not always.  Sometimes it works just fine.

 

Very odd.