Automatic text replacement in Ubuntu.

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Published on 2010-03-19T06:07:24Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 6:11 UTC
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So, I'm looking for a software native to gnome that provides automatic text replacement. Something similar to autohotkey would be great, though I really don't care about all that extra autohotkey functionality. I'm just looking for text replacement that works seamlessly while I'm typing wherever I'm typing.

I've heard that autohotkey runs on wine, but I'd really rather install something native to unix. Is there a software like this?

Thanks

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