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notpushkin on May 31, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine

I’ve built a custom layout for that (and a bunch of other symbols I frequently use). ⌥ hyphen for en-dash, ⌥ ⇧ hyphen for em-dash (and ⌥ M is for minus): https://typo.ale.sh/

(The idea isn’t new, of course: the default macOS layout’s 3rd layer is absolutely bonkers. I think Ilya Birman was the first: https://ilyabirman.net/typography-layout/)

jdxcode on May 31, 2025 [–]

those are the default macos keybindings for en-dash and em-dash characters

notpushkin on June 2, 2025 | [–]

Good point, totally forgot about that :/

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