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The notion of shortcuts for inserting prepared text isn't exactly new. I was working in a data entry job in 1983 and the system would expand predefined text sequences into the matching full text as needed. Doing this through a pretty dropdown is the same idea. I'll bet the idea wasn't new in 1983 either.
The implication here, isn't so much that what was created was new, it's "Would this feature had been created had somebody else not shown GitHub a better way?" Since the commit history for https://github.com/notwaldorf/github-canned-responses/commit... is fairly new, it's easy to believe this feature was in GitHub's pipeline for a while. If this wasn't the case, it can sting from a brand perception point of view. GitH…
I'm not sure I agree. GitHub's core service - git - is one that they did not create. I'd argue that if anything, GitHub is synonymous with accessibility and reliability.