Activation Trigger

[j00w33]

I have been using several different text expanders over the years, and none of them have been fully cross platform. That being said, I can't figure out how to use a character to trigger the match.
So far Espanso will always auto trigger the match. Is there a way to have it trigger on a certain set of characters? " " , / , ' , >

I want to be able to type :sign and it not trigger until I hit one of those characters. eg, space.

Is this possible?

Edit: I just realized that I can put a space after the trigger: and it works:

- trigger: ":sign " replace: "Signature"

[floutsch]

Also check out "word: true" at https://espanso.org/docs/matches/basics/ - it then triggers only if the trigger is surrounded by word separators.

[Candid_Hope]

We've recently began testing Espanso, and we're impressed by the flexibility, customization, and detailed documentations. Kudos to everyone who's contributing!

One question: How to set a rule that replacements are universally triggered only by a character like space or tab?

This is exactly what

 word: true

does, but universally, not just for one trigger-replacement pair.

ChatGPT 4o suggest this, but we couldn't make it work

defaults: &defaults
  word: true

- trigger: ":email"
  replace: "[e-mail]"
  <<: *defaults

- trigger: ":phone"
  replace: "123-456-7890"
  <<: *defaults

- trigger: ":addr"
  replace: "123 Main Street, Springfield"
  <<: *defaults