What's the difference between AutoComplete and Text Expander

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Archivist
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Post by Archivist » Sep 21st, ’17, 21:11

let's say I type

get
end-get

a lot and I want to automate that.

it seems like I could create it as an AutoComplete and Text Expander (both with Send).
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Marko
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Post by Marko » Sep 21st, ’17, 21:33

Both would work.

General definition is the following:
Text Expander expands text abbreviations into longer phrases.
Auto Complete suggests words or phrases while you type.

FastKeys is much more than this as it offers many advanced features and settings which can make the differences narrow. For example, enabling "Display suggestions as you type" option makes Text Expander closer to Auto Complete as user no longer needs to remember the abbreviation. On the other hand, Auto Complete can run many other commands too, not only words.

Anyway, the majority of users use Text Expander to speed up typing by expanding frequently used phrases and Auto Complete as a word suggestion utility by using wordlists like Common words, Drug names etc.
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