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EspansoEdit

Cross-platform use

Espanso Match Builder

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This is a web version of the match builder dialog found in EspansoEdit. The layout and functionality are equivalent but the EspansoEdit version also has syntax highlighting and 20 color themes.

Espanso Match Builder is a Progressive Web App (PWA). It can be used in any browser and will work online or offline. In Chromium-based browsers such as Chrome and Edge you can install Espanso Match Builder as an app from the app install button in the browser address bar. On other browsers that do not support installation (such as Safari) you can use the Add to Home Screen option from the browser context menu.

Wine on Linux

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EspansoEdit is currently native to the Windows platform only. However, the main functions work well on Wine on Linux. EspansoEdit has a silver rating on the Wine Application Database (AppDB) at WineHQ:

EspansoEdit on the AppDB

Configuration notes

The following configuration notes for Wine on Linux were kindly prepared by smeech (moderator for the Espanso server on Discord):

  1. Download the EspansoEdit ZIP file with program and extract EspansoEdit.exe to a convenient location such as your Espanso base directory.
  2. Run EspansoEdit.exe. This will show an error but create a file called EspansoEdit.ini in the same directory.
  3. Close EspansoEdit.exe.
  4. Start winecfg and open the Drives tab. Add a drive (e.g., E:) and set its Path to /home/yourname/.config/espanso/, replacing yourname with your Linux login-name. You will need to type or paste the line as Browse does not allow navigation to the .config folder.
  5. Edit EspansoEdit.ini by adding or amending the following lines (assuming E: was used in the previous step):
ActiveFolder=E:\match
PkgFolder=E:\match\packages
  1. Restart EspansoEdit.exe
  2. You can adjust the font size for the code and file lists from the winecfg Graphics tab by using the slider for Screen resolution. Menu fonts can be adjusted from the Desktop Integration tab using the Menu Text item.

Additional notes

  • There is a report that the Metro DW dark theme caused a crash on Wine on Linux, with error message relating to gdiplus.dll (library for the GDI graphics interface). This was resolved by changing the DLL override for it for EspansoEdit.exe in winecfg from Native then Builtin to Native (Windows).

  • EspansoEdit menu options to run Espanso commands do not work on Wine on Linux but this does not affect the functionality of the app.