Delays-characters

An Espanso trigger that uses the Python pynput library to inject text, instead of Espanso. This enables the addition of pauses (sleep), <Tab> etc, and other key combinations not supported by Espanso. It can include use of Espanso {{variables}}.

See https://pynput.readthedocs.io/en/latest/keyboard.html#controlling-the-keyboard for details of the keywords, and https://pynput.readthedocs.io/en/latest/keyboard.html#pynput.keyboard.Key for the key names.

If necessary, use python -m pip install pynput to add pynput to your Python installation. Tested here with Python 3.10 but may work from Python 2.7 or earlier.

Supports keywords "type", "tap", "press", "release", and "sleep".

The package includes a sample script which demonstrates a delay and the effect of simulating pressing the <Shift> key. For different scripts, copy, and rename, the package.yml file into the espanso/match/ directory. Edit the trigger value and Input list to suit your purpose.

NB. The variable {{Trig}} must match the trigger in length at least, so that parse_pynput.py removes the trigger text cleanly.

A possible future enhancement could be the addition of mouse control.