• Victor@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Here, have an em dash, on me. I’ll take the fall: —

    You know what, I’ve started using em dashes more since the advent of “AI”, in protest. I even learned how to type it out on desktop using its Unicode number, 2014. En dash is 2013, on a related note. Pretty useful IMO.

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      3 hours ago

      FWIW all major OSes support it without having to remember the alt code now

      Mac: opt+shift+hyphen

      Windows: win+shift+hyphen

      Linux: compose, —

      Mobile OSes: hold on hyphen

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        2 hours ago

        Does the compose key work with Wayland? I haven’t found a way.

        I just use Ctrl+Shift+u, followed by the code point. 🤷‍♂️