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If you are on OSX, that is a feature of OSX, not Slack. You can turn it off in Keyboard settings IIRC.

by jedahan 10y ago

therein 10y ago
My pet peeve about Slack as of late is -- is turned into a single, long-dash. Even when you're inside ` or ```. Which leaves me juggling there on my keyboard, trying to delete one, move my cursor and add a second dash before submitting.
- amk_ 10y ago
  That's the OS, too.
- Florin_Andrei 10y ago
  On OS X just disable the dumb quotes and dashes: System Preferences / Keyboard / Text / Use smart quotes and dashes = off
  - avip 10y ago
    Thanks! I seriously now owe you ~3h of my life, yearly aggregated.
- pmarreck 10y ago
  That's called an em-dash and it's done in the OS usually. Source: I was a teen during the Desktop Publishing craze
tzakrajs 10y ago
Thank you! I really appreciate the clarity as I haven't seen this "Edit -> Substitutions" menu before. I have shared this learning with my friends. If I were a developer of Slack, I would be very tempted to disable that OS functionality (similar to how Sublime Text does not seem to utilize this OS feature).
- Shank 10y ago
  Ugh, please don't. The fact that Chrome ignores the fact that I have certain OS specific keyboard settings is infuriating. Turn it off at the OS level if you don't want it. Don't make a decision that makes everyone else who uses the OS frustrated because functionality only exists in a subset of applications.
  - kitsunesoba 10y ago
    Agreed. I want more apps adhering to local conventions and generally being good citizens of the platform they run on, not less. It's so annoying when an application decides it knows better than my global system settings, especially when there's no way to change the behavior in question.
- makecheck 10y ago
  Also, this is in the Keyboard pane of System Preferences (where you probably want to make some system-wide changes to defaults so you don’t have to fiddle with the Edit menu in every application).
fuzzygroup 10y ago
Thank you so much for this. I actually couldn't find it the first time through so I documented the whole flow with screenshots here: http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/osx/2017/02/16/getting-rid-of-smart-quotes-on-osx.html http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/osx/2017/02/16/getting-rid-of-smart...

If you are on OSX, that is a feature of OSX, not Slack. You can turn it off in Keyboard settings IIRC.

by jedahan 10y ago

If you are on OSX, that is a feature of OSX, not Slack. You can turn it off in Keyboard settings IIRC.

My pet peeve about Slack as of late is -- is turned into a single, long-dash. Even when you're inside ` or ```. Which leaves me juggling there on my keyboard, trying to delete one, move my cursor and add a second dash before submitting.

amk_ 10y ago
That's the OS, too.
Florin_Andrei 10y ago
On OS X just disable the dumb quotes and dashes: System Preferences / Keyboard / Text / Use smart quotes and dashes = off
- avip 10y ago
  Thanks! I seriously now owe you ~3h of my life, yearly aggregated.
pmarreck 10y ago
That's called an em-dash and it's done in the OS usually. Source: I was a teen during the Desktop Publishing craze

tzakrajs 10y ago

Thank you! I really appreciate the clarity as I haven't seen this "Edit -> Substitutions" menu before. I have shared this learning with my friends. If I were a developer of Slack, I would be very tempted to disable that OS functionality (similar to how Sublime Text does not seem to utilize this OS feature).

Shank 10y ago
Ugh, please don't. The fact that Chrome ignores the fact that I have certain OS specific keyboard settings is infuriating. Turn it off at the OS level if you don't want it. Don't make a decision that makes everyone else who uses the OS frustrated because functionality only exists in a subset of applications.
- kitsunesoba 10y ago
  Agreed. I want more apps adhering to local conventions and generally being good citizens of the platform they run on, not less. It's so annoying when an application decides it knows better than my global system settings, especially when there's no way to change the behavior in question.
makecheck 10y ago
Also, this is in the Keyboard pane of System Preferences (where you probably want to make some system-wide changes to defaults so you don’t have to fiddle with the Edit menu in every application).

fuzzygroup 10y ago

Thank you so much for this. I actually couldn't find it the first time through so I documented the whole flow with screenshots here: http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/osx/2017/02/16/getting-rid-of-smart-quotes-on-osx.html http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/osx/2017/02/16/getting-rid-of-smart...