[Tistron]

I use espanso, and replicate my config between mac and win with syncthing. My system is to put every expansion pattern within colons:

:y: => thumbs up emoji

::): => smiley

:endash: => –

:emdash: => —

I don't know why I hadn't thought of using :--: and :---:, I'm setting that up now, thanks!