| ▲ | julbov 6 hours 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 |
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| ▲ | schoen 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I type Compose Hyphen Hyphen, which is pretty quick and easy! (One might feel that normal keyboards don't have a compose key.) |
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| ▲ | teo_zero 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > One might feel that normal keyboards don't have a compose key. On the other hand, normal keyboard have an insert key which serves no purpose and can thus be remapped to compose. | | |
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| ▲ | wdporter 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Easy on windows: press and hold the alt key, and then 0151 on the numeric keypad. |
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| ▲ | smnrchrds 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Well the em dash remains difficult to type on a normal keyboard Not on Mac: hyphen/dash: - En-dash: ⌥- Em-dash: ⇧⌥- |
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| ▲ | bdangubic 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | thats a lot of effort :) | | |
| ▲ | MarkLowenstein 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Something 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 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | In 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 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Obligatory https://xkcd.com/378/ |
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