01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100100 01100101 01100001 01101100 00111111

edit - honestly not a troll. is it the specific formatting of “em” dashes? i know for sure we use them all the time. or at least i do. but they’re just dashes to me, so…

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    Most people aren’t taking the time to type in ctrl+shift+u+2+0+1+4 when a regular minus-dash would get the point across with a single keystroke.

    emacs:

    • C-x 8 _ m

    • C-x 8 RET E M SPC D TAB RET

    emacs using input methods

    • C-\ T e X RET to enter TeX input method. - - - to enter an em dash when in that input method.

    • C-\ s g m l RET to enter sgml input method. & m d a s h ; to enter an em dash when in that input method.

    • C \ r f c 1 3 4 5 RET to enter rfc1345 input method. & - M to enter an em dash when in that input method.

    For X11 or Wayland, if you have assigned a key to be Compose: Compose and then three hyphens to get an em dash.