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Re:It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us by dang on Friday July 09, 2021 @03:17PM (#27787448)
Probably the most excited I've ever personally made PG was when he saw me make an em dash on my MBP and immediately wanted to know how.
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Re:It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us by dwaltrip on Friday July 09, 2021 @03:43PM (#27787730)
I would also like to know how!
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Re:It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us by junar on Friday July 09, 2021 @04:45PM (#27788286)
Well, parent comment mentioned Mac, so the correct answer is Option, Shift, and - (hyphen). There are many other characters that Macs can type with the Option key.
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Re:It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us by dwaltrip on Friday July 09, 2021 @05:32PM (#27788777)
Thanks! That is great.
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Re:It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us by Lammy on Friday July 09, 2021 @04:07PM (#27787959)
Compose Key followed by three dashes (two and a period for an en-dash) https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libX11/i18n/compose/e...

Also on Windows using WinCompose http://wincompose.info/

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