I now use "ASCII em-dashes" by using two hyphens -- like this. Or--if you prefer no spaces--like this.
Nah, I’ve started noticing people doing this replacement automatically in LLM output. I just try not to write with dashes anymore.
same, or I use a semicolon
the nn dash remains the goat. the arg dash
Don’t you love when your arg dashes get autocorrected to emdashes? And by love I mean hate with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.
Agreed. On an iPhone that’s the easiest way to type an em dash and consequently the easiest way to fuck up trying to write out a command line example.
Nah, I’ve started noticing people doing this replacement automatically in LLM output. I just try not to write with dashes anymore.
same, or I use a semicolon
the nn dash remains the goat. the arg dash
Don’t you love when your arg dashes get autocorrected to emdashes? And by love I mean hate with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.
Agreed. On an iPhone that’s the easiest way to type an em dash and consequently the easiest way to fuck up trying to write out a command line example.