TextExpander Popup Menu

We produce HTML pages for each Micronaut Guide. However, we write them as plain text files (more precisely Asciidoc files). We have custom macros to include common snippets. For example, to generate a callout about an @Introspected annotation we write:

callout:introspected[1]

Automation is not just about saving time. It is a about correctness. I have created a Text Expander snippet to help me write those callouts.

I trigger the snippet with zcallout

and it uses a Popup Menu:

this is how it works:

Tags: #automation #textexpander