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Ask HN: How do you call the "-" on a keyboard?
- voidUpdate 2mo ago"Hyphen" in writing, "dash" or "tack" in command line
- Ekaros 2mo agoMinus is an option. Especially on numpad.
- sixthDot 2mo ago("-")
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- nhgiang 2mo agoEveryone else answered “what do you call…”. You are the only one answered OP’s question.
- voidUpdate 2mo agoWouldn't it be "-"()?
- sixthDot 2mo agostrong argument
- stop50 2mo agoMinus
- rzzzwilson 2mo agoThe "ASCII" page in the Jargon File gives a few names for "-". It even says that the official ANSI/CCITT names are "hyphen" and "minus". https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/ASCII.html https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/ASCII.html
- lordkrandel 2mo agoDash
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- glowtyping_dev 2mo agoDash. Sometimes - minus.
- JohnFen 2mo agoIf it's the "-" on the keypad, I call it "minus". If it's the key on the main keyboard, I call it "dash". I do it a little differently for the character (versus the key). That's probably more important because I'm almost always referring to the character, not the key. I call that a "minus", "hyphen", or "dash" depending on the context it's being used in.
- SOTGO 2mo agoI prefer dash, but I do find it somewhat amusing that windows virtual key codes have a mismatch between the constant and the description on this page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/inputdev/virtual-key-codes https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/inputdev/vir... VK_OEM_MINUS 0xBD For any country/region, the Dash and Underscore key VK_SUBTRACT 0x6D Subtract key I'm not sure if I've ever heard someone say "Subtract key" but I guess it makes sense for it's purpose on the numpad This other source has a different description: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms.keys?view=windowsdesktop-10.0 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.... OemMinus 189 The OEM minus key on any country/region keyboard.