Integrated text expander has been a popular feature request in the community (1, 2, 3, etc.). I am glad to say it is no longer a feature request, as I implemented a plugin providing the requested functionality.
Dang it! Found a brilliant, funny article by Justin Pot on creating em dashes at Zapier. On Mac, it’s pretty easy! (outside of Obsidian, anyway.) On my Windows system, it’s pretty tough! (in or out of Obsidian).
Could really use something that works on Windows!! (I use em dashes a lot. :__)