1 hour ago · Tech · 0 comments

Previously. Problem statement: espanso edit corp opens a config file, but saving it doesn’t take immediate effect. At $DAILYJOB I keep a separate match file for work-specific snippets (“corp”). Espanso supports multiple match files under match/: % espanso edit corp Editing file: /Users/thiago.perrotta/Library/Application Support/espanso/match/corp.yml After saving, the new trigger doesn’t expand. Espanso doesn’t auto-reload on file change. The intended fix: % espanso restart Except that it has timed out: unable to start service: timed out Hint: sometimes this happens because another Espanso process is left running for some reason. Please try running 'espanso restart' or manually killing all Espanso processes, then try again. A stale process was holding the IPC socket lock, so espanso restart, espanso start, and even espanso service start all timed out — while espanso status cheerfully reported espanso is not running. The hint is right, but its suggested remedy (run espanso restart…

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