Sticky Keys on Mac Mini with MacOS Sonoma (14.6.1)
Can anyone tell me whether and how to set up sticky keys on a Mac mini 2020 using McOS Sonoma (14.6.1)?
Mac mini, macOS 14.6
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Can anyone tell me whether and how to set up sticky keys on a Mac mini 2020 using McOS Sonoma (14.6.1)?
Mac mini, macOS 14.6
Bob is telling you the correct answer, but you are stuck on wording, "replace" vs "insert", and thus you seem to disregard it.
You type some characters and they are instantly "replaced" by the words you want to "insert".
It can be Option-z if you like!
Option-z in the US layout would type a capital Ω but now it will produce "me@mycompany.com":
(This is set in System Settings->Keyboard)
How is that not what you were asking?
I think I am still asking the wrong question. This will be the last time. I want to insert (not replace), for example, my email address into a document by inserting the cursor where I want the email address to appear and press a couple (or three—or one?) keys simultaneously (like command-f10 or control-0) that will insert the desired text, in this case, my email address. I won't bother your folks with this again. Thank you!
tcarder wrote:
(like command-f10 or control-0)
It’s not done on a Mac with things like that, but by replacing a short letter text with the longer one you want.
There might be 3rd party apps which could use cmd or control sequences for it.
Bob:
Nossir. What I want to do is to INSERT text, i.e., my email address, to begin with, at the point where the cursor lies. Not "replace" text but insert preprogrammed, prescripted text. For example, program a <option-z> sequence with my email addy, which then inserts my email wherever the cursor lies. If that works I may be able to use it to replace highlighted text, too. By the way, I do not even know if "Sticky Keys" is the correct term. It may be "Hot Keys" or something similar. And thank you for your reply!
Yes. Wrong question. You want to set up Text Replacements in System Settings > Keyboard.
See Replace text and punctuation in documents on Mac - Apple Support
Just to add, the current version of Sonoma is 14.7.2. You should update.
I must be asking the wrong question. How do I set up some keys to paste a prescribed text I define into wherever the curse is located? Text such as my email address or my name, etc?
Do you want Text Replacement?
System Settings-> Keyboard-> Text Replacement-> [+]
I use “bob@“ as my trigger, and this gets replaced with my full email address.
Sticky Keys on Mac Mini with MacOS Sonoma (14.6.1)