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It's pretty much mandatory for developers and tech people using a Mac to turn off the global "Use smart quotes and dashes" and most of the text replacement gunk
by noselasd 3y ago
It's pretty much mandatory for developers and tech people using a Mac to turn off the global "Use smart quotes and dashes" and most of the text replacement gunk.
It's quite counterproductive to have someone paste a json blob in Slack/mails/etc. ending up with all with the wrong quotes, as in “string”
- Y-bar 3y agoIt's a bit ironic because Apple did not do this for a very long time and only implemented it in recent years after being pressured by Windows converts who were used to it happening there.
- layer8 3y agoIt doesn’t happen on Windows, other than in specific applications like Word.
- Y-bar 3y agoSounds mostly just like Mac OS then, no? Where in specific applications like Notes and Slack it is being replaced. But not in other specific applications like Finder, Terminal, Music, or Firefox. I don't like it either, but one seems modelled after the other.
- layer8 3y agoI responded to your “Apple […] implemented it in recent years after being pressured by Windows”. I have no idea what Apple actually implemented. In any case, there’s no such application-independent functionality in Windows proper. Word for Mac probably also had it all along. And it’s as wide-spread in platform-independent web-tech-based apps (e.g. Electron apps).
- Y-bar 3y ago> I have no idea what Apple actually implemented. The things the person I responded to mentioned: > the global "Use smart quotes and dashes" and most of the text replacement gunk.
- kps 3y agoMacOS has (had?) a fairly reasonable keyboard layout that let you type such things directly.