Transmogrify arrows on macOS

If you’re like me, you hate the look of a dash and a greater-than symbol as a poor man’s arrow. Here it is in 64pt font, so you can really soak in it’s terribleness:

Ugh. Disgusting. One alternative is to use an emoji: ➡️. Sometimes that’s okay, a lot of times it’s not. It’s also a pain to type Cmd + Ctrl + Space and wait 30 seconds for the emoji picker to open. There’s gotta be a better way!

Enter Text Replacements…

Open `System Preferences`, click on the `Keyboard` navigation item in, and click `Text Replacements…` (you may need to scroll down to the Text Input section)

Type --> as the Replace value and type → as the With value and click `Done`

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Go forth and type -->’s and watch as they automagically transmogrify into

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