I am not a fan of ligatures either. The "compose" key would be another option to insert various Unicode glyphs and it exists already. Unfortunately, with monos

I am not a fan of ligatures either. The "compose" key would be another option to insert various Unicode glyphs and it exists already. Unfortunately, with monospace fonts many of these glyphs do not look nice to me due to the width constraint. Maybe a "multispace" font would be nicer while still preserving the grid alignment.