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by eviks 330 days ago
Nothing stops you from simply not enabling that font feature, user config is also not a bug
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elric 330 days ago
Configurable fonts are a thing? Never configured a font beyond size/weight/colour. Intetesting.
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0xAFFFF 330 days ago
Yep, modern fonts have features that can be enabled or disabled, depending on client support. IDEs typically allow to enable/disable ligatures and you also can control font features with CSS (see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-featur...)
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crazygringo 330 days ago
How?

Which editors on which OS's provide a toggle for that?

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hadrien01 330 days ago
Jetbrains IDEs: Settings > Editor > Font > Enable ligatures

Sublime Text: Set "font_options" to "dlig". There are other settings to choose which character tables are allowed to use ligatures or not.

Visual Studio Code: Set "editor.fontLigatures" to "true". You can also put CSS font features to choose which ligatures you want to enable.

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crazygringo 330 days ago
Thank you so much, I had no idea! Very helpful.
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dismalaf 330 days ago
Dunno about toggle in an editor but fancy terminals have config flags for stuff like that (Kitty, Wezterm, Ghostty, etc...).

And then you run Vim or Emacs in said terminal...

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