Sprout Expander

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Project Summary

Sprout (nano) is an open-source Windows text expander in Rust. Type a short trigger (;omw) and it expands to full text—a maintained, tray-first alternative to Beeftext.

Nano is deliberately minimal: no manager window, only a system-tray icon. Snippets live in editable TOML that reloads live. Ships as one portable Sprout.exe without WebView2.

Under the hood: global keyboard hook, trie matcher, placeholders (#{date}, #{clipboard}, #{cursor}), groups, case rules, per-app exclusions, and keystroke or clipboard injection. Headless engine and CLI are heavily tested; optional sprout-cli handles import/export.

Friendly for non-power-users who want reliable expansion without YAML ceremony. MIT-licensed.

In a Nutshell, Sprout Expander...

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has had 32 commits made by 1 contributors
representing 38,116 lines of code
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is mostly written in Rust
with a low number of source code comments
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has a codebase with a very short history
maintained by one developer
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 10 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 2026
ending with its most recent commit 27 days ago

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