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Re:The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredi... by mattkrause on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:07AM (#47489748)
It should be THREE hyphens for an em-dash!
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Re:The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredi... by kelnos on Monday March 23, 2026 @05:38PM (#47495450)
In theory, yes, endash would be "--" and emdash would be "---", but oof, the three hyphens looks like way too much in normal text. So I've always used "--".
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