## System Wide Snippet Expansion Ubuntu Unicode symbols (like `✔` `x` `→`) look nice, and we should use them more often. But typing them is not fun at all. Either you need to remember [long numeric codes](https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/tips-specialchars.html) or take hands from keyboard to [do multiple mouse clicks](https://help.gnome.org/users/gucharmap/stable/gucharmap-introduction.html.en). Ligatures have right idea that `->` should be converted to `→`, `+-` to `±` etc, but whats the point of it, if only selected apps with rare font are able to show them? On another topic, I hate to type long words like "unfortunately" and "successful" and always make mistakes in them. So I want to autocomplete them. And expand frequently used phrases like "Thank you". So I suggest you to use global snippets which will work in *any* app like Slack, Sublime Text, Intellij Idea, Browser input fields e.t.c. As bonus script to do that is very minimalistic - it relies on simulating keyboard shortcuts to select, cut and paste text. Original idea by [sessy](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=71938), my version is heavily modified and have number of improvements. Works like this: * Type `->`, press hotkey, get `→`. * Type `15eur`, press hotkey, get `15€`. * Type `unf`, press hotkey, get `unfortunately`. * Type `thx`, press hotkey, get `Thank you`. * ... Read instalation, and add your own snippets: Source on Github 🏷️Tip