Most of the CotEditor's menu items can be executed using keyboard shortcuts. CotEditor allows you to customize those key bindings. Also, CotEditor lets you store some text snippets you use frequently along with your preferred keyboard shortcuts.
Menu Key Bindings
You can change the key bindings for CotEditor's menu items.
The key bindings you set here must include Command key.
Snippet Key Bindings
You can add text snippets along with your preferred keyboard shortcuts.
The key bindings you set here must exclude Command key.
Here, you can set only the key bindings for CotEditor's own text handling commands. For more details about customizing the standard key bindings of Cocoa applications, see Apple's documentation (external link): macOS keyboard shortcuts
When a snippet contains <<<CURSOR>>>, the word <<<CURSOR>>> will be removed on insertion and move the cursor position there instead.