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Insert quick text

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You can use this smart utility to save commonly e-mailed or typed text—for example, if you frequently have to e-mail your home or office address to your friends or partners. If you are a programmer, there is a standard header or footer that you want to insert in the new files you create. This utility is also helpful if you just want to store a N6-character alphanumer­ic special character password. In all these situations, you just need to type or copy existing text to a clipboard. Invoke Blaze and type Add New Quick Text. You will then be prompted with a small form to enter a name for the text that you just copied. For example, if it is your ‘shipping address’, you can type courier against that address.

To use the stored text in any applicatio­n like an editor, e-mail, or password prompt, you should invoke Blaze and type insert <name>, where ‘name’ is what you stored text against. To insert the address we just copied, type insert courier.

By now you must have understood why Blaze stands apart when it comes to features and the level of applicatio­n integratio­n. If you are still not convinced, you can read the excellent dissertati­on in the oeferences section, which compares Blaze with 25 other similar competing utilities. I thank the developer and maintainer, Gabriel Barata, for such a powerful utility.

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Figure 9: Adding new Quick Text
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