VebA snippet is words you keep to write again: an introduction, directions, a polite no. In a mail it can bring people, a subject and files with it, and it fills in names as it goes in. One list serves all of Veb and every account, kept on this Mac.
Put one in#
In a reply or a new mail, type ; and the start of a snippet’s name, such as ;intro: the snippets by that name hang under the caret. ↑ and ↓ choose, and ↩ or ⇥ puts one in; esc leaves the ; as you typed it. Or press ⌘; for every snippet, the ones you use most first, and type to find one.
In any box on a page, ; and a name work the same way, and ⌘; lists them too. A snippet set to In Mail only stays out of pages, and none show in password boxes or code editors.
In a mail, its people and subject go in only where the mail has none, its files join yours, and the caret lands on the first place to fill. One ⌘Z takes all of it back.
Names that fill in#
{first_name}and{name}: the first person in To.{my_name}: yours.{date}: today, as your Mac writes a date.{clipboard}: what you copied.
Outside a mail, only {date} and {clipboard} fill in.
Two braces, as in {{time}}, make a place to fill by hand, and so does a name with nothing to fill it. A mail with one left in it doesn’t go: the line over Send says Fill in {{time}} before sending.
Make one#
From any mail, yours or not, or from the draft you’re writing, choose Save as Snippet in ⌘K and name it. A mail gives its own words and subject, without what it quotes or its signature; a draft gives its words, its Cc, Bcc and the files you attached, and a new mail’s subject too.
Settings › Snippets lists them, the ones you use most first. New Snippet… writes one from scratch, a click on one opens it to change, its name changes right in the list, and a right-click deletes it. There you can give one a shortcut of its own, and choose Everywhere or In Mail only; only a mail snippet brings people, a subject and files.