Having recently started using Windows, I missed the typographic hotkeys in Macs, such as em-and-en-dashes, curly quotes1, and ellipsis. Thankfully AutoHotKey exists, and here is a script that remaps the keys to what I am used to type on a Mac.
#[::“
#+[::”
#]::‘
#+]::’
#-::–
#+-::—
#;::…
| Key | Result |
|---|---|
| [ | “ |
| ⇧[ | ” |
| ] | ‘ |
| ⇧] | ’ |
| - | – |
| ⇧- | — |
| ; | … |
Footnotes
I don’t have smart quotes turned on; I always manually type out curly quotes. Except when using Microsoft Word. ↩