Another great episode, @MacSparky and @RosemaryOrchard. You two are the best! Thank you so much for everything you do for the Apple community.
If you have purchased Keyboard Maestro, but haven’t visited the Keyboard Maestro Forum, do yourself a huge favor and come on over. It’s a very friendly place filled with smart and generous users—newbies to pros. Also, the KM Developer, Peter Lewis, participates frequently.
I chuckled a little bit during the episode when this frequently required text transformation came up:
local_SomeVariable --> %Variable%local_SomeVariable%
I think Rosemary mentioned that she uses PopClip to do it; and David said he uses TextExpander.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m very glad David and Rosemary use and discuss many automation tools, but as a regular old user, I’m attempting to consolidate and use Keyboard Maestro whenever possible.
(I say that, but Typinator comes up often on the KM Forum, and I just asked one of the users his rationale for using both. Let’s face it, it’s hard to resist some of these cool automation tools.)
But back to the text transformation…
Keyboard Maestro, itself, can be used for the text transformation—but there are a few subtleties. I do it often and have shared a macro that can do it and many other transformations: MACRO: Augment or Filter Text, v2.2
I had put together a silent demonstration video and ironically the last demonstration includes the above transformation.