Abbreviations and inline expansion

Good abbreviations are memorable and unlikely to be typed by accident. Prefix them with z, j, ;, or double a letter.

How it works

TypeFire builds a trie of your abbreviations and watches what you type in the page's fields. On a match it replaces the abbreviation with the body, in the field you are typing in.

When it fires

Settings → Snippets → Expansion mode decides for every snippet: after a delimiter (a space, return or tab), or the instant the last character is typed. One snippet can differ: turn on Override expansion mode beside its Abbreviation field and pick its own. A bsig that fires on the space while zz fires as you type, in one library. Snippets made before this exist follow the setting, as they always did.

A body can end in a space or a tab and it is kept: Best, pastes with the space, so the next word does not run into it.

Case sensitivity

Setting	Behavior
Ignore Case	bem, ZEM, Zem all fire
Case Sensitive	Only the exact case fires
Adapt to Case	Type ZEM and the body pastes UPPERCASE; Zem capitalizes the first letter