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.

#[::“
#+[::”
#]::‘
#+]::’
#-::–
#+-::—
#;::…
KeyResult
Windows key[“
Windows key⇧[”
Windows key]‘
Windows key⇧]’
Windows key-–
Windows key⇧-—
Windows key;…

Footnotes

  1. I don’t have smart quotes turned on; I always manually type out curly quotes. Except when using Microsoft Word. ↩