Feature Request
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MacOS’es on-the-fly text replacements are very handy for UX/screen designers who make heavy use of emoticon symbols or copy text editors who use shortcuts to paste frequently used text snippets or foreign letters, symbols, etc.
- System Preferences > Keyboard > Text
- The text replacements configured here work in almost all Mac apps (if Cocoa based)
- But not in Figma Desktop App version 114.6.1
- Please add support for this Mac specific productivity feature.
Usability Considerations & Conflict Analysis
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Very low likelylood to conflict with the single-letter-shortcuts of Figma such as those for the tools like “R” for rectangle, etc.
- No one makes single letter text replacements as you could hardly type then.
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Unlikely to be in conflict with Figma’s normal editing in text elements.
- Because while you type macOS by default passes on the input unmanipulated and shows the preview in the bubble above, only when entering a SPACE the transformation happens.
- And you as a user can avoid this by pressing ESC as long as the preview bubble is still there.
- I see no usability conflict.
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A small possibility that text replacements may conflict with input in areas of Figma where code/markup is entered, plugins/widgets/etc which may use special syntax.
Make it a preference toggle
- Main Menu > Figma > Preferences > “Use macOS text replacements” as on/off toggle.
- I think this is not configuritis but acceptable.
- Question is whether the factory default is ON or OFF.
- I rather go for ON, as it’s mostly helpful and conflict free, and helps discovery over time.
- Users would discover it while typing one day, that macOS text replacements are now working in Figma, and could disable in case it bares some conflicts.
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