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Plus-minus (±) Quick Accent
Description of the new feature / enhancement
Can you please add support for the plus-minus symbol (±) in the Quick Accent feature?
When holding down '=', it would be great to see ± and possibly some more relevant symbols such as approximately equal to (≈).
It would act similar to holding down '-' for different dashes (e.g., en and em dash).
Scenario when this would be used?
When writing scientific results, I often use ±.
E.g., "mean ± SEM".
Supporting information
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This feature already exists. If you hold down ,, you should see it there. Note that I'm running v0.74.0, so it's possibly a recent addition.
Agreed this is under the , but maybe it should be under the = or + as well.
Agreed. While the , key contains ±, the - and = keys both contains ∓ ∓. I think this can be streamlined, be removed from the comma key (which already houses a few other duplicates) and be brought into the - or = keys.
I'm no developer, but I wouldn't mind helping out in streamlining the special characters. For the most part, they work very well (the Pound sign can be found in P, which I can imagine, but it would make sense if it was available in E, because £ looks like...) and it's nice when they're there, but sometimes having to hunt around for the relevant symbol can be troublesome (I had to google where the ± was located after I copy/pasted it from another webpage).
