Mac OS text replacement not working

[JoelFoner]

Description of the bug

It seems that Mac OS text completion is not working in Sublime 4126. I hadn't tried this before, but have now started using text replace at the OS level pretty regularly and have noticed it does not work with Sublime. Would be quite helpful if this is fixed (assuming this is a bug... or implemented if not?)

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a text replacement string in Mac OS System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Text
2. Verify that the replacement string works in another Mac application
3. Open a tab in Sublime Text
4. Type the replacement string

Expected behavior

Popup with replacement text

Actual behavior

No popup appears

Sublime Text build number

4126

Operating system & version

Mac OS Monterey 12.6

(Linux) Desktop environment and/or window manager

No response

Additional information

No response

OpenGL context information

No response

[magicznyleszek]

I can confirm this is broken on my machine too. Same build and MacOS version. I'm 80% sure it did work some time ago.

[chrisfcarroll]

ditto on MacOs 13.3

[esaruoho]

broken here on macOS Sonoma 14.1.2. would be lovely to get.

[ggerico]

It would be awesome!

[esaruoho]

@fluffycat if i understand, this is different from what we're reporting.

In System Settings -> Keyboard -> Text Replacements... - you can set specific keycombinations that result in say a URL or something else, like:

these are the ones that don't work in Sublime Text, or on Discord, or on Google Chrome.

it looks like this:

[fluffycat]

@fluffycat if i understand, this is different from what we're reporting.

In System Settings -> Keyboard -> Text Replacements... - you can set specific keycombinations that result in say a URL or something else, like:

these are the ones that don't work in Sublime Text, or on Discord, or on Google Chrome.

it looks like this:

Oh oh my mistake. Thank you for the notification. (╹▽╹)

[frankfarm]

Also fails in 4180 in Sonoma 14.5.

[brianleejackson]

Can confirm it's broken with Sublime 4180 running macOS Sequoia 15.1.

Would love to eventually see this fixed.

[g0ldi90]

Confirmed not working on Sublime 4189 and Sequoia 15.2.

[deathaxe]

ST implements its own cross-platform completion system not related with OS specific features.

Hence MacOS text replacement not working is not a bug, just not an implemented feature.

[g0ldi90]

The way we call it is secondary. Bug or a missing feature, I dont really mind. The fact is that it does not work and it should.

[deathaxe]

It would however also easily be possible to write some *.sublime-snippets doing the same. Maybe someone could even write a tool doing so from defined MacOS replacements.