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Macs and iDevices have been auto-transforming -- into – for well over a decade now, and on the iOS standard keyboard both – and — are just a single long press o
by cosmic_cheese 1y ago
Macs and iDevices have been auto-transforming -- into – for well over a decade now, and on the iOS standard keyboard both – and — are just a single long press of the dash key away.
- wk_end 1y agoMy Mac doesn't -- at least not as far as I can tell.
- hug 1y agoYou will have turned off the function "use smart quotes and dashes" in the spelling & prediction settings.
- wk_end 1y agoNo, it's on (by default I assume). In certain places it does seem to do the substitution - Notes for example - but in comment boxes on here and (old) Reddit at least it doesn't.
- cosmic_cheese 1y agoIt’s a per-app setting that sometimes needs to be set in the text field’s context menu. There’s also a few apps that just don’t integrate with the macOS text system.
- wk_end 1y agoWell, I see no way to set it in Chrome. A good reason to be a little suspicious of Reddit or HN posts with em-dashes IMO.
- eclipticplane 1y agoIt does on Safari (Mac and iOS) by default on Reddit.
- latexr 1y agoProbably under Edit → Substitutions. That’s where it usually is in apps.
- codazoda 1y agoA long press of - should give it as an option as well. Mine auto translates it but I can’t recall if I added it or not.
- lo_zamoyski 1y agoThere's also Option (+ Shift) + -.
- c0nducktr 1y agoMicrosoft Word does this too. I've recently started manually uncorrecting these corrections in my writing because of this new implication that I used Chat-GPT. Still less obvious than the emails I see sent out which contain emojis, so maybe I'm overthinking things...
- saalweachter 1y agoI mostly find myself uncorrecting it when I'm trying to document command line flags.
- olddustytrail 1y agoYou can edit the list of autocorrect to remove any you don't want (or add new ones). Also you can ctrl-z immediately after an autocorrect to undo it.
- aksss 1y agothe dashes and the auto capitalization are awful for technical writing. The ctrl-z becomes painful and annoying very quickly. Would that Word supported markdown.
- aksss 1y agoThis is a ridiculous maladaptive behavior. Word has been replacing dashes forever, consequently it has been unintentionally ubiquitous in business writing forever. That this character ever became a heuristic for AI is silly.