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Version: v2.2.1

Command-line Basics

Espanso ships with a few useful terminal commands that can be used to interact with it.

Enable or Disable

Other than using the toggle_key shortcut, you can also enable/disable espanso with the following commands:

# Enable espanso
espanso cmd enable

# Disable espanso
espanso cmd disable

# Toggle between enabled/disabled
espanso cmd toggle

These makes it a breeze to control espanso from your desktop environment or other scripts.

Listing Matches

When integrating espanso with a script, it might be useful to list the available matches. You can do so with the following command:

espanso match list

Run espanso match list --help to find out other interesting options.

Trigger an injection

Another interesting possibility is injecting a given match from the command line. You can do so with:

espanso match exec -t <trigger>

where <trigger> is the match trigger.

This is useful if, for example, you want to trigger an expansion from a script.

Full list

A full list of Espanso command line options may be found here.

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The author of the project

Hi! I'm Federico, the creator of espanso. I develop espanso in my (little) spare time and I decided to make it open source because I thought it could be useful to many people.

If you liked the project, please consider making a small donation, it really helps :)

A special thanks goes to all the wonderful people who supported espanso along the way

Together, we will make espanso the first universal text expander, open to everyone.

Contributing

Espanso is open source and hosted on GitHub.

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If you find a bug or have an idea for a new feature, please open an issue on GitHub.