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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?

MacBook Pro

Posted on May 6, 2020 11:41 AM

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

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