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John Donald Author

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Notes crashes on Catalina when starting line with three dashes or a space then 3 dashes.

Notes crashes on Catalina when starting line with three dashes or a space then 3 dashes. Anyone else have this issue?

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Posted on May 6, 2020 11:41 AM

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Barney-15E

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Posted on May 6, 2020 2:03 PM

I don't, but I imagine it might have something to do with text substitutions. It should be trying to convert that to an em dash.

Turn off Smart Dashes in Edit menu > Substitutions and see what happens.

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Barney-15E

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May 6, 2020 2:03 PM in response to John Donald

I don't, but I imagine it might have something to do with text substitutions. It should be trying to convert that to an em dash.

Turn off Smart Dashes in Edit menu > Substitutions and see what happens.

John Donald Author

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May 7, 2020 7:33 AM in response to Barney-15E

Thanks, that helped.

I have a Sys Pref>Keyboard>Text replacement for a smart dash (-- to —).

I disabled that, and no more crash. Alternatively, I can turn off smart dashes in Edit>Substitutions. So it was something about how my Keyboard Text replacement was interacting with the Smart Dash Substitution.

Barney-15E

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May 7, 2020 8:24 AM in response to John Donald

Interesting.

Notes crashes on Catalina when starting line with three dashes or a space then 3 dashes.