Glitch has developed using Typinator with nvUlt

Howard Dinin

May 07, 2023 00:45 Edited

Been using Typinator for about two years, with no problems.

With the past two updates (currently using 2023.04.11.12.47), a strange behavior has developed with a macro that was working properly before.

The macro is "h3h" which is the abbreviation (with no space after it) that converts instantaneously to "<h3></h3>" and the cursor positions itself between the two tags so I can just start typing that header (there are also macros for higher and lower order headlines, i.e. h2,...,h4, etc.) The macro works in other apps properly (including this browser window), but in nvUlt now it gets converted to the proper tags, but the cursor lands two characters to the right in the right hand tag, between the forward slash and the closing "h3" (that is, between the "/" and the "h" in </h3>. Any thoughts?

A rare problem probably and I can live with it, but it seems strange. And it would be nice to get it fixed. I use nvUlt a lot. Thanks.

Howard

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  Fletcher Penney

  May 07, 2023 20:25

  I don't believe I have change anything that would affect this, and when I installed the same snippet on my machine to test it works fine.

  You might want to make sure you have rebooted machine.  Any conflicting text expansions that you have created within nvUltra?  Any other system extensions running?

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  Howard Dinin

  May 08, 2023 15:47

  Thanks Fletcher. I've used the intervening time to do further checks honing the search strategy according to your hints. FWIW, the specific problem persists:
  - starting in Safe Mode and booting only Typinator and nvUltra.
  - using Tinker Tool System, re-starting with all unprotected caches temporarily removed.
  I can work around the glitch with a different abbreviation (using #h3 as the abbreviation, and giving me ###   ### as the snippet, with the cursor positioned in the center of the MD).
  
  I haven't exhaustively tried the various permutations of preference settings in nvUltra (the problem remains exclusively with this abbreviation in this application) to see if there's some interference with the "smart" features (especially involving special punctuation e.g., forward strokes, backward strokes, brackets, curly brackets, parentheses, quotation marks, etc.) which want to make the cursor move leftward from the closing > bracket of the </h3> tag. I had watched the snippet get typed on screen very carefully... the hint or abbreviation gets translated to the snippet, and then the cursor moves, almost character by character to the left, jumping the right bracket, and then the "h3".
  
  Thanks again for your help. I'll keep trying to figure it out. In the meantime I have a workable alternative. I just have to remember to think MD instead of XML.

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  Fletcher Penney

  May 09, 2023 01:30

  1.  Try the `#h3` abbreviation, but the same snippet that you normally use.

  2. Send me screenshots of your preferences, and I can test the same configuration.

  3. What version of macOS are you using?

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