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Re:JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for devel... by java-man on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @09:58AM (#22054671)
The use of ligatures seems counter-productive to me. In the code, I do not want to see any editor shenanigans apart from syntax highlighting.
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Re:JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for devel... by npongratz on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @10:07AM (#22054755)
I agree completely. When I see ligatures, I have to mentally stop and wonder what the actual characters are "underneath". So annoying.
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Re:JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for devel... by redisman on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:58PM (#22057243)
It only took me a few weeks to get used to it and now it' annoying to not have them. The math ones are especially nice since I always had a little bit of trouble remembering the order of gte and lte. Now I get immediate visual feedback that's very clear (just like in the math books).
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Re:JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for devel... by sp332 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @10:33AM (#22055058)
The ligatures are optional. VS Code lets you toggle them on or off, Notepad++ doesn't support them (but there is a plugin for that).
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Re:JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for devel... by _pmf_ on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:53AM (#22062465)
> Notepad++ doesn't support them (but there is a plugin for that)

Do you by any chance have a link? When I looked for the same thing, I just found one GitHub issue referring to Scintilla internals.

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