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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)
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- [Insert A Non-Breaking Space Character](mac/insert-a-non-breaking-space-character.md)
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- [List All The Say Voices](mac/list-all-the-say-voices.md)
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- [Quickly Type En Dashes And Em Dashes](mac/quickly-type-en-dashes-and-em-dashes.md)
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- [Require Additional JS Libraries In Postman](mac/require-additional-js-libraries-in-postman.md)
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- [Resize App Windows With AppleScript](mac/resize-app-windows-with-applescript.md)
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- [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
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To type a hyphen, you hit the key right next to the zero: `-`. But what about
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if you need the similar looking en dash and em dash?
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Some programs have text areas that will automatically convert two consecutive
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dashes into an em dash.
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There is a more reliable method that can get you both: these two keybindings
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which are a variation of the `-` key itself.
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* `Option -` will produce an en dash (–), named that because it is typically
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the width of the n character.
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* `Option Shift -` will produce an em dash (—), named that because it is
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typically the width of the m character.
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The en dash seems to be the less familiar of the two. For more details on when
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to use that, [check out this excerpt from Dreyer's
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English](https://twitter.com/jbrancha/status/1344345683294380035).
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h/t [Shawn Wang (@swyx)](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1344127570753646593?s=20)
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