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Macs and iDevices have been auto-transforming -- into – for well over a decade now, and on the iOS standard keyboard both – and — are just a single long press of the dash key away.

>>cosmic+(OP)
My Mac doesn't -- at least not as far as I can tell.

>>wk_end+P
You will have turned off the function "use smart quotes and dashes" in the spelling & prediction settings.

>>cosmic+(OP)
There's also Option (+ Shift) + -.

>>wk_end+P
A long press of - should give it as an option as well. Mine auto translates it but I can’t recall if I added it or not.

>>hug+H1
No, it's on (by default I assume).

In certain places it does seem to do the substitution - Notes for example - but in comment boxes on here and (old) Reddit at least it doesn't.

>>cosmic+(OP)
Microsoft Word does this too. I've recently started manually uncorrecting these corrections in my writing because of this new implication that I used Chat-GPT.

Still less obvious than the emails I see sent out which contain emojis, so maybe I'm overthinking things...

>>wk_end+P4
It’s a per-app setting that sometimes needs to be set in the text field’s context menu. There’s also a few apps that just don’t integrate with the macOS text system.

>>cosmic+G5
Well, I see no way to set it in Chrome. A good reason to be a little suspicious of Reddit or HN posts with em-dashes IMO.

>>wk_end+m6
It does on Safari (Mac and iOS) by default on Reddit.

>>wk_end+m6
Probably under Edit → Substitutions. That’s where it usually is in apps.

>>c0nduc+S4
I mostly find myself uncorrecting it when I'm trying to document command line flags.

>>saalwe+381
You can edit the list of autocorrect to remove any you don't want (or add new ones).

Also you can ctrl-z immediately after an autocorrect to undo it.

>>c0nduc+S4
This is a ridiculous maladaptive behavior. Word has been replacing dashes forever, consequently it has been unintentionally ubiquitous in business writing forever. That this character ever became a heuristic for AI is silly.

>>olddus+sZ1
the dashes and the auto capitalization are awful for technical writing. The ctrl-z becomes painful and annoying very quickly. Would that Word supported markdown.