[xcdzvyn]

> Otherwise, we should all prioritize making our products flimsier and more expensive.

It's the view of many that this is indeed what most companies prioritize — I'm not saying it's true, but it doesn't seem to be a particularly fringe opinion. It's in the vein of enshittification.

Also, might I ask how you inserted that em-dash? A keyboard shortcut? It's interesting to see fancy typography online.

[nor-and-or-not]

In macOS you can also use:

option+minus for en-dash – and shift+option+minus for em-dash —

[vladvasiliu]

This can be reproduced on Linux using the "mac" layout. "option" is "level 3 shift" on Linux.

This works on X11, I haven't tried on Wayland.

On Windows it works, too, by grabbing the "us - mac" layout and using the alt-gr for the mac's option. I think this is the layout I use: https://github.com/adunning/Mac-Keyboard-Layouts-for-Windows

[peterhadlaw]

One can look up the utf8 character for different typographical characters and copy and paste them in. On macOS at least, there is a keyboard shortcut for "emojis" (Cntl+Cmd+Space) and a little window shows up where you can search for emojis by name, and typographical characters by name (such as "em dash"). —pjh

[xcdzvyn]

> One can look up the utf8 character for different typographical characters and copy and paste them in.

Haha, yeah, that's what I usually do. But it's arduous enough for me not to bother for a HN comment. That's why I brought it up.

I love macOS' emoji picker thing, I wish there were something like it on Linux.

[js2]

Bring up the keyboard viewer widget on macOS and it will show you a live preview of what each key is... you can hold down the modifiers to see how the keys change.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-the-keyboard-vi...

Also—FWIW—an m-dash should not have whitespace on either side, at least, not in America. :-)

https://medium.com/typography/on-dashes-hyphens-and-other-im...

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/mind-your-en-and-em...

[butterknife]

KCharSelect on KDE Plasma is a good alternative on Linux.

[cwillu]

WinCompose is wonderfully intuitive for those on operating systems without one included stock.