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Add Quickly Type En Dashes And Em Dashes as a Mac til

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- [Gesture For Viewing All Windows Of Current App](mac/gesture-for-viewing-all-windows-of-current-app.md)
- [Insert A Non-Breaking Space Character](mac/insert-a-non-breaking-space-character.md)
- [List All The Say Voices](mac/list-all-the-say-voices.md)
- [Quickly Type En Dashes And Em Dashes](mac/quickly-type-en-dashes-and-em-dashes.md)
- [Require Additional JS Libraries In Postman](mac/require-additional-js-libraries-in-postman.md)
- [Resize App Windows With AppleScript](mac/resize-app-windows-with-applescript.md)
- [Resizing Both Corners Of A Window](mac/resizing-both-corners-of-a-window.md)

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# Quickly Type En Dashes And Em Dashes
To type a hyphen, you hit the key right next to the zero: `-`. But what about
if you need the similar looking en dash and em dash?
Some programs have text areas that will automatically convert two consecutive
dashes into an em dash.
There is a more reliable method that can get you both: these two keybindings
which are a variation of the `-` key itself.
* `Option -` will produce an en dash (), named that because it is typically
the width of the n character.
* `Option Shift -` will produce an em dash (—), named that because it is
typically the width of the m character.
The en dash seems to be the less familiar of the two. For more details on when
to use that, [check out this excerpt from Dreyer's
English](https://twitter.com/jbrancha/status/1344345683294380035).
h/t [Shawn Wang (@swyx)](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1344127570753646593?s=20)