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by calamari4065 858 days ago
Huh. You know what, I kinda dig it.

I could do without operators being condensed into ligatures, but that's just me. The gigantic triple equals strikes fear into my C programmer heart
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jeffalyanak 858 days ago
Yeah, I generally do _not_ like programming-oriented ligatures, but the one for todo is sort of interesting.

However, many editors can accomplish the same goal by highlighting or changing the text colour of todos.

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globular-toast 857 days ago
Emacs package for that (highlights others like FIXME etc): https://github.com/tarsius/hl-todo

You could make it have the outline thing if you tweak your theme. I wouldn't start installing or hacking your fonts to get this kind of stuff.

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pie_flavor 857 days ago
Fira Code supports stylistic sets, so you can actually configure whether == and === (and != and !==) do that, and leave weirder ligatures out of the defaults. In VS Code, for example, you would change editor.fontLigatures from true to "'ss08'" to make them still ligate together, but with breaks between the = signs. I use ss06 to make backslashes faded when they're used to escape other characters.
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