When writing an RMarkdown file in RStudio, I'd like to be able to insert common text snippets using a keyboard shortcut. On the one hand, there are code snippets in RStudio, but they don't seem to work for Markdown. So I'd settle for any other way to create a custom keyboard shortcut for inserting a pre-specified piece of custom text, while I wait for that bug to be fixed.
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Turns out you can use code snippets in Markdown in RStudio. Although they don't seem to work at first, you can force snippet expansion using Shift+Tab, as described here. The RStudio team says they'll add that to the official documentation in the future.
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This doesn't work outside of chunks for me – Samuel Allain May 06 '22 at 16:26
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I found a solution [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42161446/rstudio-keyboard-shortcut-inline-code) – Samuel Allain May 09 '22 at 14:02