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		sinuhe69 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-... How do people type em dash on the keyboard? On iOS you have to long-press the dash key, on a hardware full keyboard you have to key-in the code(?). That’s all very cumbersome and unnatural! Why people bother using em dash at all?

sjs382 4 months ago | [–]

Mac: Option-shift-hyphen

Android: long-press hyphen

pxx 4 months ago | [–]

there are shortcuts but they can also compose their response in a richer text editor then paste. matched quotation marks also typically show up.

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