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[igravious]

I was operating under the impression that a single asterisk would muck up the Markdown parsing on HN. Turns out I'm half wrong it seems. Some work. With the italicised tests below, the first has a prepended asterisk, the second has an appended one.

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I think I just started using daggers because U+2020 was super easy to remember and to avoid Markdown issues and the habit has stuck.

You don't by any chance use Vim, do you?

I use the Unicode plugin[0] by Christian Brabandt in Vim to quickly search for Unicode characters.

You can use vim-plug[1][2] by Junegunn Choi, for instance, to install it and keep it updated or just install it manually yourself.

   call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')

   Plug 'https://github.com/chrisbra/unicode.vim'

   call plug#end()

Then within vim type :UnicodeSearch dagger to search for daggers. This gives me:

   †    U+2020 Dec:008224        DAGGER (/-) †
   ‡    U+2021 Dec:008225        DOUBLE DAGGER (/=) ‡ ‡
   ⸶    U+2E36 Dec:011830        DAGGER WITH LEFT GUARD ⸶
   ⸷    U+2E37 Dec:011831        DAGGER WITH RIGHT GUARD ⸷
   ⸸    U+2E38 Dec:011832        TURNED DAGGER ⸸
       U+1F5E1 Dec:128481       DAGGER KNIFE 🗡

[0] https://github.com/chrisbra/unicode.vim

[1] https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug

[2] https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/wiki/tips#automatic-ins...

[Jedd → igravious]

This is almost definitely not the place to be experimenting with HN mark[down|up].

[Y_Y → Jedd]

Where would you suggest?

[Y_Y → igravious]

I use spacemacs, which has the equivalent M-x insert-char.