Quick N-dash and M-dash

Scrivener Wish List
1

In some languages the character’s dialog is with quotes “” but in other languages the norm is to use M-dash (long dash) to start a dialog.

I don’t see that anywhere in the editor or in the Keyboard shortcuts. I am writing a text editor in Microsoft .NET and in my editor toolbar I added both the M-dash and the N-dash so that they user can quickly open a dialog with that if required. I find it much quicker than a key combination I am not good at because usually those that you are more likely to remember conflict with existing ones.

2

Windows (in general, not just Scrivener) is indeed dreadful for this sort of what should be a base requirement – I had to resort to an Autohotkeys script just to get easy access to the en and em-dash.

But in Scrivener can’t you just use the auto-correct for this? You don’t say which version of Scrivener you’re using, but in the Windows beta you can go to Tools > Corrections > Substitutions > Replace double hyphens with a em-dash, and then – will give you the full em-dash.