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Text converter based on set tables with the ability to act on the selected text with a shortcut #24434

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nmpetkov opened this issue Mar 2, 2023 · 3 comments
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Idea-New PowerToy Suggestion for a PowerToy Resolution-Duplicate There's another issue on the tracker that's pretty much the same thing.

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nmpetkov commented Mar 2, 2023

Description of the new feature / enhancement

When typing texts anywhere, and especially in chats, a person writes for a long time without looking, and then realizes that he was in capital letters or did not switch the keyboard to the other language. Then it is necessary to select the wrong text and apply the shortcut that Power Toys will provide and quickly and easily replace the text with the selected conversion.
It should have the following quick conversions:

  1. Text to capital letters
  2. Text to lowercase letters
  3. Text inversion (lowercase letters in the text to uppercase and uppercase to lowercase)
  4. Text to transliterated text
  5. Ability to user input conversion tables that are specific to his needs (because there are many keyboard switching options)
  6. Each of the above can be mapped to shortcuts

The implementation of the above will save billions of hours of humanity :-)

Scenario when this would be used?

In every editing control in Windows.

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@nmpetkov nmpetkov added the Needs-Triage For issues raised to be triaged and prioritized by internal Microsoft teams label Mar 2, 2023
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neoOpus commented Mar 2, 2023

What a coincidence!!! I was about to suggest the same thing, I wish if some of the Dev make us an Alternative to SnipDo that is based on PowerToys and that support add-ons or scripts that everyone can toggle, download to fit their requirements, such things are tremendous time saver and amazing productivity addition to almost every user, it would be great if it works in similar fashion to SnipDo but more robust and versatile... I can make a list of tools and contribute to the scripts later ( I wish if I have the skills and knowledge to make it myself but unfortunately I don't )

Right now PowerToys add some new features but they are slowly implanted since but with some scripting support that allows interaction with content and UI then it could be easy for many to make all sort of tiny tools that exists already but requires the installation of several freewares or visiting many websites (and having bookmark list well maintained)...

I cannot stress enough how this can be time saver, even to transform a text to a hashtag it shouldn't take more than selecting the text and having a bubble to do that by replacing spaces or eliminating them (matter of taste) and adding the # at the begging of the sentence...

Notepad++ can offer a lot of inspiration of how many tiny tools, script that can be created, but since they can be a lot then having the ability to organize them in a menu with representative icons (in same Windows 11 design) would be great.

Imagine a bubble who dynamically change if you select a text then it will show several icons to transform the text organized in groups and categories (that end users can specify themselves) ... if it is a URL then another menu would show up...

SnipDo is great in term of what it does, but it is paid, closed source and maintained by only one person so it wouldn't be many productive people would install on their workstation.

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/dup #907

Please add your ideas there.

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Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

@microsoft-github-policy-service microsoft-github-policy-service bot added Resolution-Duplicate There's another issue on the tracker that's pretty much the same thing. and removed Needs-Triage For issues raised to be triaged and prioritized by internal Microsoft teams labels Mar 2, 2023
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