Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Script Sending

Sometimes people ask me how I deal with prescripted mmaterial if I just use Plover, which doesn't have a built-in script sending feature, rather than commercial steno software, which does. The answer? I use a Kinesis foot pedal, Streamtext, and Vim. I have a one-pedal system I keep in my bag all the time, which sends text line by line when I type:

:map F ^v$"+yj

in Vim. It has two sockets, one set to auto-return after sending a line (for song lyrics) and one set to add a space after sending a line (for speeches and other prescripted prose). I also have a three pedal unit I use for theater captioning, which lets me send one, two, or three lines at a time, depending on the rate of the dialogue. It all works pretty smoothly, whether or not I'm running Plover. Who needs proprietary software anyway, right?

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