System-wide text replacement similar to AutoHotKey

Question

AutoHotKey has this text-replacement feature:

;bullet
::_bullet::•

;disapproval
::_dis::{U+0CA0}_{U+0CA0}

;lenny
::_lenny::( {U+0361}{U+00B0}  {U+035C}{U+0296} {U+0361}{U+00B0}  )

I am trying to replicate this functionality in Ubuntu.

I have installed Autokey, and am trying to replace the text, "_bul" with "•". Autokey comes with some sample scripts (python), such as:

output = system.exec_command("date")
keyboard.send_keys(output)

This prints out the date. I tried:

print "•"

which works in python, but apparently, Autokey doesn't support unicode.

Are there any other tools I could use to achieve this functionality?

Answer 1

Try sinippy: http://leon.vankammen.eu/tech/snippy-autocompletion-for-console-and-browser-window-manager-using-bash.html

or snippely: https://code.google.com/p/snippely/

Other answers on SO might also be helpful to you: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4175501/best-way-to-manage-code-snippets-in-linux