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soperjyesterday at 5:05 PM1 replyview on HN

how do you make them?


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RussianCowyesterday at 5:46 PM

On macOS, Option+Shift+- and Option+- insert an em dash (—) and en dash (–), respectively. On Linux, you can hit the Compose Key and type --- (three hyphens) to get an em dash, or --. (hyphen hyphen period) for an en dash. Windows has some dumb incantation that you'll never remember.

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