{"id":14266,"date":"2016-04-25T13:43:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T17:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14266"},"modified":"2016-06-16T09:38:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T13:38:11","slug":"outsmarting-the-smart-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/25\/outsmarting-the-smart-dash\/","title":{"rendered":"Outsmarting the Smart Dash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.practicallyefficient.com\/2016\/04\/24\/outsmarting-the-smart-dash.html\">Eddie Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.practicallyefficient.com\/2016\/04\/24\/outsmarting-the-smart-dash.html\"><p>All that to say, it&rsquo;s unfortunate that you can&rsquo;t separately turn on\/off smart dashes and quotes in System Preferences. Fortunately, though, you still can through Terminal with:<\/p>\r\n<pre>defaults write 'Apple Global Domain' NSAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled 0<\/pre><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Update (2016-04-25): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rosyna\/status\/724692736624881664\">Rosyna Keller<\/a> notes that it&rsquo;s best to avoid &ldquo;Apple Global Domain&rdquo;:<\/p>\r\n<pre>defaults write -g NSAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled 0<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Smith: All that to say, it&rsquo;s unfortunate that you can&rsquo;t separately turn on\/off smart dashes and quotes in System Preferences. Fortunately, though, you still can through Terminal with: defaults write 'Apple Global Domain' NSAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled 0 Update (2016-04-25): Rosyna Keller notes that it&rsquo;s best to avoid &ldquo;Apple Global Domain&rdquo;: defaults write -g NSAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled 0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[649,30,1199],"class_list":["post-14266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-esoteric-preferences","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-11"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14821,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14266\/revisions\/14821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}