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Re:Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator by boobsbr on Thursday September 06, 2018 @03:27AM (#17924492)
Why do you need ligature support?
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Re:Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator by mkl on Thursday September 06, 2018 @06:59AM (#17925299)
Not OP, but they are an essential component of some languages' writing systems, so it could be that.
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Re:Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator by wiz21c on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:17AM (#17924918)
If you code in the console with this : https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode ??? Dunno...
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Re:Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator by boobsbr on Thursday September 06, 2018 @08:11AM (#17925639)
In this case, it's more of a 'nice to have' feature than a 'I need it' feature.
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Re:Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator by adamch on Thursday September 06, 2018 @09:35AM (#17926122)
Ligatures make Haskell, Rust and JS roughly 18 times more readable, I've gotten so used to them that I hate reading code without them.
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