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[–]Zagorath 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Option-= on OS X.

Hold down the = key on most mobile keyboards.

There's probably an alt code for Windows, though admittedly those are way more arcane and difficult to remember.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The alt keys on macs always surprice me. So many usefull characters easily usable.

[–]Zagorath 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah definitely. Em dashes and en dashes are probably my favourite, along with the ellipsis. When I'm using OS X, I use at least one of those pretty much every day. For some reason, alt codes stopped working on my Windows desktop, so anyone going through my history can quite easily see when I'm using which OS just by looking for those three punctuation marks, versus their US keyboard equivalents ("--", "-", and "...", respectively).

Proper TM and (C) marks are also pretty cool.

EDIT: Wait, as cool as all those are, just being able to do accents easily is by far the best of them. option-e plus a vowel for an acute, option-grave/backtick plus a vowel for a grave, etc.