Disabling automatic en dash when editing files in TextEdit I've noticed that typying -- in text edit results in those signs being converted to en dash: –. This is highly undesirable behaviour. For example correct formatting for the SRT files is (related problem):


  time --> time


automatic en dash insertion is unnecessary here. Hence my question, how to disable it in TextEdit (the problem does not occur in Atom or TextWrangler)?
Open TextEdit Preferences (⌘,) and uncheck Smart dashes.

You will need to close and re-open your documents for the change to take effect.