Em dashes and emojis

  • @[email protected]
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    15 days ago

    I think this is something macOS does best — using shift+option hyphen is a bit quicker than alt+0151.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 days ago

      Long pressing the hyphen on the Google keyboard on Android also gives the option of selecting an en dash or em dash.

      On Linux, if you have the compose key enabled, Compose key + three hyphens in a row will generate an em dash (en dash is two hyphens).

        • @[email protected]
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          15 days ago

          It’s convenient for a lot of things. Curly quotes, specialized dashes, mathematical symbols or Greek letters used in math/science, foreign currencies, things like paragraph symbols (¶) or section symbols (§), etc.