Is there a way to make some hotkeys like CNTL+something in order to enter some specific characters?
I use some plugins that can change entered sequences into some required symbols, like “–” transferred into long dash. But this is not enough and not so convenient. It wold be better to have a special plugin that can handle hotkeys.
OK, then I suggest using Text Snippets, which allows you type key phrases, and then expand them.
It’s also possible as suggested in the next reply (of that previous link) to use Templater and have that present various texts to your liking as templates.
And even Quick Add can be used for stuff like this. The advantage with this one is that it could present you with various grouping options to select phrases/text.
So not sure which one would suit you best, as it depends heavily on your use case, and the number of text you want accessible through this system and so on.
But for fair amount of different text alternatives, if you’re able to give them a proper key phrase, I think the Text Snippets could be a viable option.
Unfortunately entering such stuff is always a PITA on Windows. There is no special keys on the keyboard and entering these symbols is possible only via software support. For example, I can enter all of them in MS Word because it has such king of a support (natively with the quote signs and wish dashes with hot-keys). But here in a window inside my browser I can enter them only via ALT+code and this is not very convenient because reduces the speed of typing.
Regarding to the “template and hotkey” - could you please provide me with an example? Because I checked mentioned plugin and didn’t find a way how to assign a hot key for this. Or I missed something in the settings?
The templater plugin allows you to assign hotkeys to specific templates. So you could set up a template containing only those two quotes and then assign that to a hotkey.
For example, if you wanted to enter these notes you could set up a template file with the following contents:
«<% tp.file.selection() %>»
This way whenever you trigger that template the two quotes will be inserted. Additionally, if you have any text selected then it will be automatically wrapped in the quotes