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After following the suggestions here How to stop Mac to convert typing double dash to emdash? and disabling Smart quotes and dashes and even replacing the text of -- to --, when I try to type a double dash, it automatically gets replaced by a long single dash. Even more dashes than two are getting replaced by a long single dash of the corresponding length.

e.g.

-- automatically translates to —,

------ automatically translates to ——————

Also this happens system-wide, at all apps, with a few exceptions (like when writing a URL at a browser). Is there a way to get rid of that behavior?

The current version of OS X is Mojave 10.14.6.

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  • Disabling "smart quotes and dashes" should do the trick. Have you restarted the affected apps (e.g. TextEdit)?
    – slhck
    Aug 18, 2019 at 17:45
  • Indeed I have. Restarted all the apps and then restarted the system too. Still the same reaction.
    – Sarriman
    Aug 18, 2019 at 18:01
  • Do you have anything else interfering with text input? Some other apps?
    – slhck
    Aug 18, 2019 at 20:50
  • @slhck No. It is a brand new laptop.
    – Sarriman
    Aug 19, 2019 at 7:04

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