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Well the em dash remains difficult to type on a normal keyboard, this is a major reason why I don't use it, and why I think it will never get widespread adoptio
by julbov 10mo ago
Well the em dash remains difficult to type on a normal keyboard, this is a major reason why I don't use it, and why I think it will never get widespread adoption
- schoen 10mo agoI type Compose Hyphen Hyphen, which is pretty quick and easy! (One might feel that normal keyboards don't have a compose key.)
- smnrchrds 10mo ago> Well the em dash remains difficult to type on a normal keyboard Not on Mac: hyphen/dash: - En-dash: ⌥- Em-dash: ⇧⌥-
- bdangubic 10mo agothats a lot of effort :)
- MarkLowenstein 10mo agoSomething about people successful with computers makes them quick to claim something is easy based on the number of steps needed, without regard to the ease of remembering all the arbitrary or sometimes contra-pattern steps required.
- smnrchrds 10mo agoIn my defense, I remember it because I expect Option key to modify the original character and Shift key to make it bigger, so remembering that Option plus Shift makes hyphen into a bigger alternate version of it, i.e. the em dash, is not difficult. I acknowledge that not everyone would see it this way.
- kstenerud 10mo agoObligatory https://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/
- wdporter 10mo agoEasy on windows: press and hold the alt key, and then 0151 on the numeric keypad.