Yeah I’m assuming it is because of my device not Obsidian itself. I just found it funny that someone was asking for the exact feature I was trying to get rid of, for the exact reason you mentioned months ago! I’ve only tested it on my ipad, but since I mostly only needed it for assigning aliases in the front matter I just did it once and made it a template
In case any other newbies come upon this page via google, I was able to do - - - (dash space dash space dash) and then go and manually backspace the spaces. Intolerable to do every time, but fine to do twice in order to make a template
FWIW, the built in text replacer didn’t work either. I asked for —- to be replaced with — but it just gave me a single em dash shrug
ETA: Sorry now realizing that I replied to your comment in my first one which was probably not necessary since I wasn’t actually asking for help!