Comments on: Set a Shortcut to Type an Email Address Instantly in Mac OS X with Text Expansion

By: Aberto I

Aberto I — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:29:27 +0000

Thunderbird? Wasn’t that for emails?

By: Aberto I

Aberto I — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:27:30 +0000

Don’t work in forms (on Internet)
Or in logins…

Not a great utility in fact

By: Bob H

Bob H — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:15:57 +0000

Be nice if I could see the video. Not sure what settings I have, but videos from OSX Daily always show as a black box, with no way to reload. I’m using Thunderbird 14.0

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:37:55 +0000

Nice… if you use TextEdit at all. I would like to see this work in web forms.

By: William

William — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 03:02:54 +0000

This is very useful, but it doesn’t seem to work on secure sites (with https:// prefix).

This is decidedly unfortunate as the best application for this shortcut in my case would be to enter my email address for website logins much quicker.

Furthermore, I agree with Ric on the field-specific options suggestion.

By: Ric

Ric — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:07:21 +0000

It’s a good tip. Too bad there’s no way to use nicknames in Apple Mail the way Eudora used to work. You’d just type the nick, and the email address filled in automatically.

Text expansion works, but it expands everywhere. If it could at least be limited to a particular field in a particular application (Mail, for example), that would be great.