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With a good deal of skepticism, I switched the environment where I do about half of my work to a font with ligatures some time ago. Just to try it out for a whi
by jddj 7y ago
With a good deal of skepticism, I switched the environment where I do about half of my work to a font with ligatures some time ago. Just to try it out for a while.
I happily forgot that I had done it as a trial, and upon reading this headline caught myself hoping that there would be ligatures.
I actually find that it provides an almost haptic feedback when going between things like =, == and ===, and I think I miss it just a little when I don't have it.
As for the font itself, I like it but slightly prefer the style of Fira Code.
- tracker1 7y agoFor some reason, I just don't like the spacing in Fira Code... I really like Inconsolata/Consolas myself... I've tried both, but it just feels off to me. Aside: Hopefully this font has box and line art characters and they align properly... this is a huge short coming in a number of fixed-width fonts that should be rectified.
- veidr 7y agoWow, I didn't think I wanted ligatures and so I never turned them on. But based on your comment, I just tried it and I found that I love it! The little visual blip! when the characters merge does in fact provide a nice little feedback that I've typed the right thing. And also the two-character => arrow in fat-arrow functions always kind of bugged me a little bit and it is nice to have it condensed to a single visual entity. Woo hoo! I will leave ligatures on from now on.