Dash handling

[jamienk]

I think your dash-handling should be vastly simplified and better match markdown and smartypants (http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/)

• Two hyphens should turn to m-dash
  I know this should be n-dash, but m has become stylistically used by default, see smartypants config:

#  1  ->  "--" for em-dashes; no en-dash support  
#  2  ->  "---" for em-dashes; "--" for en-dashes 

• No space before or after required (this is a style question and people can add spaces if they want, but your current way leaves the non-spacers in the lurch)
• Quotes after dash should be correct, e.g.,:

He said--and I couldn't stop him--"No!" <--Opening quote should be correct

[danyaPostfactum]

Strange...It seems I've lost my comment here. I tried to post some time ago:

I would rather mimic Word behavior:

He said--and I couldn't stop him -> He said—and I couldn't stop him (em dash)
He said -- and I couldn't stop him -> He said – and I couldn't stop him (en dash)
He said - and I couldn't stop him -> He said – and I couldn't stop him (the same as prevous)

Mostly done in 5eac066

[jamienk]

I have this issue:

She said--and I quote

two dashes get replaced with mdash after I type "and "

She said--she's the one

two dashes don't get converted after "she's "

I suspect this has to do with Firefox putting line breaks (\n?) after the quotes? #7

[jamienk]

This seems to work now with the refactoring. Thanks