fast_learner 1 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I'm fairly new to Evernote (which I'm running in Mac OS X Mavericks), so my apologies if this is a naive question... I would like to get into the habit of using Evernote to keep track of command snippets from Unix sessions. Oftentimes when running Python/Perl scripts, program flags will require double dashes (--) when specifying a particular option. For example, test_script.pl --option=blahblah Unfortunately, Evernote will always assume when you type a double dash (--) that what you REALLY want to type is an em dash (—), and it will replace the double dash with the em dash accordingly to help you out. This is unacceptable for the type of record keeping I would like to perform, but I haven't been able to find any way to turn off this behavior. Does anyone know of a workaround or some way I might turn off this autoformatting 'help' that Evernote is providing?Thanks,Nate Link to comment
cajoel 0 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 This also really bothers me. As someone who likes to use evernote to keep track of linux command line snippets, the automatic conversion of -- to emdash is a real problem. I'd love to figure out how to disable this too. Link to comment
Level 5* GrumpyMonkey 4,319 Posted January 3, 2014 Level 5* Share Posted January 3, 2014 This also really bothers me. As someone who likes to use evernote to keep track of linux command line snippets, the automatic conversion of -- to emdash is a real problem. I'd love to figure out how to disable this too. Hi. It's easy. Apple System Preferences -> Language and Region -> Keyboard Preferences -> Text -> uncheck "Use smart quotes and dashes" Link to comment
fast_learner 1 Posted January 3, 2014 Author Share Posted January 3, 2014 I never stopped to think that an OS-level tweak might be what was required. Worked like a charm. Appreciate the assistance! Link to comment
Level 5* GrumpyMonkey 4,319 Posted January 3, 2014 Level 5* Share Posted January 3, 2014 I never stopped to think that an OS-level tweak might be what was required. Worked like a charm. Appreciate the assistance! Glad I could help Link to comment
Level 5 jbenson2 2,147 Posted January 3, 2014 Level 5 Share Posted January 3, 2014 For Evernote WindowsWhat I did was add the following reference info to my default note. ———————————————————standard dash: - en dash: – (width of N) Alt + 0150 em dash: — (width of M) Alt + 0151——————————————————— If I needed one of the special ones, I did a copy and paste. Link to comment
Daneel 0 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 There is even much easier solution:Right click -> Substitutions -> unselect Smart Dashes. From great source: http://superuser.com/a/555633/274362 Link to comment
Steve Alexander 0 Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Go into a terminal, and write: defaults write Evernote SmartDashes -bool false This will turn off smart dashes for Evernote, but not change other autocorrect, or other apps. Link to comment
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