I think I prefer the swiftkey method of holding down the hyphen key to select an alternative, since if I type something twice (like --) I'd just expect it to be written twice rather than turn into something else

Thank you. A long hold on most Android buttons also reveal secrets, ⅐th of the time! 😲 —Signed, Your Presentation Designer.

yeah and i HATE it because the only time i ever need to type two dashes is when telling someone about command line arguments and i dont want it turning those into em dashes

That’s so cool! I was interested so here’s a few more. Holding 0 gives °, holding . gives … and holding “ gives «». Holding ? gives ¿, holding $ gives ¢£₩€¥₽, holding & gives § and holding ! gives ¡. 🍹💕

I'm just happy when people puntuate at all these dqys.

What's a "forget-you"

Nice try AI—trying to get humans to assimilate.

Nooo don't tell people this, overuse of em dashes is one of the tells that someone used chatgpt to write something.

BUT HOW DO I MAKE AN EN DASH

Yeah— but then everyone thinks you used AI

yeah but how do I type two hyphens

I usually just hold it down until I see which length I want. This is definitely a tad bit quicker.

........keeping it old-school

please———————————————em dashes are my favorite

O———h.

——— cool

Or on Mac: Alt+- for en dash (–) Alt+shift+- for em dash (—) On windows it's apparently the same with one caveat—you have to use the '-' on the numeric keypad (haven't tried though)

Wait—I can do it on Android too! (Though I hope that computer keyboards allow you to type this)

Should be two for an en dash and three for an en dash :-(

tapping and holding on android gives me - – — or ·

Over the long years, I think I've actually come to prefer two characters -- the double hyphen -- rather than the single character.

—oh shit!!! This is so exciting—

What—that’s brilliant—tysm

Ooh—oooh!

I'll dash til' I die.

This pissed me off 😭🫣

And then when you use em dashes people will accuse you of being AI for some reason!

__ — so you can! Learnt something new today.

Learnt something new today. Thank you.

Thanks. — I didn’t know that.

— — — —— omygoodness this is so addictive 🤣

— i did forget

worst thing when trying to send cli --flags in chat apps

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You can make em em dashes

I’ve started memorizing some of the most useful alt-codes for Windows. That one is alt+0151. The shorter en dash used for “2–5”, is 0150. 24 ↑, 25 ↓. I use ←these two for parent post & embedded link/post/image. é 0233. 248°C. • 7. 0133… ≈247. Many more ↓ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code

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You can just long press it and have the en dash option as well.

I'll try but no promises

Testing… - — ——

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No way!

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How do you like them dashes

But how do you type an en-dash then?

“”—-

By posting on here you have s dash cam on you

Woah—love that

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On android with SwiftKey I have to go to alt characters and then long press "-"... I do it every time 😂

Heh. I had to remove the apostrophe my brain inserted before "em" before this made sense.

— omg?

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Thanks!!

Um, not sure what you mean? 🤷🏻‍♀️

-- ___ hmmm

What—?

I recently learned that a long press on the iOS spacebar turns the keyboard into a mousepad 🤯

But how do you do --?

--——-- Ohhhhhhh-kay this is actually cool. Teehee! 🤭 Thanks!

It’s hard to forget when I routinely end up with em dashes when I actually want “--“, like if I need to tell someone to use a command line flag (e.g., `--help`).

That's what they say but idk if that is true in word or Figma

long———boiii

Wait—————-oh missed one

-- let's see if android does it too.