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dialup_sounds on May 27, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt

Word and Outlook auto-replace double hyphens "--" with em-dashes "—", which is probably the most commonly used way on Windows.

pmarreck on May 27, 2025 [–]

Yeah, but that's not global. Mac has global keyboard entries for these things, and they are incredibly easy.

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