My experimental Espanso configuration.

The goals of these expansions are collectively to:

• Improve typing speed through commonly used abbreviations. E.g. abt -> about, impltn -> implementation, etc.
• Use more emojis in conversation. Emojis better convey emotion, tone, and empathy. 🙂
• Minimize typos by minimizing the number of keypresses.
• Correct common typos. E.g. teh -> the.

These expansions are categorized by type, one category per file:

• phrases.yml: Common text expansions for speed. E.g. abt -> about.
• emoji.yml: Shorthand for commonly used emojis. E.g. /) for 🙂.
• flags-emoji.yml: Country flag emojis. E.g. /swe for 🇸🇪.
• typos.yml: Fixes for common typos. E.g. teh -> the.
• tests.yml: Miscellaneous expansion tests. Not meant for real-world usage.

And for more robust abbreviation completion, add these additional word separators to your Espanso configuration file in ~/Library/Application Support/espanso/config/default.yml:

• word_separators: [" ", ",", ".", "?", "!", ")", "}", "]", ">", "\r", "\n", "\t", "\'", "\"", "\x0c", ":", ";"]