Expd

Expd is a command-line text expander tool.

It lets you associate short words with arbitrarily long texts, and expand them in your clipboard (use --no-copy if you don’t want that).

gem install expd

# add a snippet
echo "This is my long text" | expd -a txt

# use it
expd txt

Use expd -h for more info.

Only Linux and OS X are supported for now; feel free to open a pull-request if you want to add Windows support!

This is tested on Ruby 1.9.3+.

Snippets are stored in a YAML file located at ~/.expd_snippets. You can edit it yourself if you need to. The snippets are stored in a hash under the :snippets key. Each key in the hash is a word and its value the expanded text.