inkscape-shortcut-manager VS hsnips

I am unable to reply to any comments, so I’ll add my reply to blagie as a top-level comment instead: Gilles himself documents his process of using Inkscape here: castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-2/

As a summary, he uses a custom keyboard shortcut manager¹ which allows him to compos multiple keystrokes (and also saves commonly used styles):

> For example, when I press `s` and `f` simultaneously, my shortcut manager will apply a solid stroke and a grey fill to the current selection. When I want the stroke to be thick, I press `s+f+g` together, where `g` stands for thick (as the `t` key is hard to reach).

[1]: he makes it available on GitHub: https://github.com/gillescastel/inkscape-shortcut-manager

Since some of the underlying tools like inkscape-figures-manager and inkscape-shortcut-manager are specific to Linux and macOS (even worse, while the former does support macOS, the latter only support Linux, hence I need to write new scripts with macOS specific tool to achieve the same functionality), so sadly, windows users are left behind...

I'm reasonably proficient with the language and syntax of python however when it comes to making actual applications I don't really know where to start. I can make very simple applications using pyinstaller but I would be aiming for something with utility like this.

Ah, that's the only downside about Hypersnips... though it's good, the documentation is not enough. I would say if you're aiming to know everything about Hypersnips, see the issue and README in the repo... It's certainly not well-organized but it basically has everything you need to write a dynamic snippet.

I have thought about this, but the thing is if you look closely at the disclaimer section, I use hsnips to handle my snippets. so if you define something like \newcommand{\dd}{\mathop{}\,\mathrm{d}} to make it an operator, I would argue that I can just define a snippet which will expend dd into \,\mathrm{d}. So for me, this is not a big problem and I would like to keep my self-defined operators as minimal as possible, so I just go with plain tex.

As far as I know, you can’t use Ultisnips directly. But there is a VSCode extension called Hypersnips (https://github.com/draivin/hsnips) that is inspired by Ultisnips and translating your snippets between the two isn’t too hard.