Fonts & ligatures

[Jacek Laskowski 57]

Is it possible to enable full ligature support in Delphi code editor?

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

Why do you need that in a code editor?

[Jacek Laskowski 57]

Because the code looks better, neater and clearer. I use ligatures in VSC and I am a fan of them 🙂

 

 

 

 

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

Can you use ligatures as operators in the actual code?

[Rollo62 536]

I'm not very sure about ligatures, but I'm afraid they don't have fixed proportions.
I wouldn't think that non-fixed fonts are a good choice for code editors.

[Fred Ahrens 59]

My brain would detect this as an error while reading the code. I always expect to see in the source code the characters I did type and not the characters the IDE "thinks" might look better.

[Stefan Glienke 2002]

As far as I know the editor control does not support ligatures

[Jacek Laskowski 57]

1 minute ago, Stefan Glienke said:

As far as I know the editor control does not support ligatures 

It just handles, only in specific situations, so I asked if it could be switched on permanently.

 

 

I discovered it by accident, it only works if the text is a commentary and only if there is some unicode character pasted in the same line, here unicode ENVELOPE.

 

[Jacek Laskowski 57]

27 minutes ago, Fred Ahrens said:

My brain would detect this as an error while reading the code. I always expect to see in the source code the characters I did type and not the characters the IDE "thinks" might look better.

Try to work with JS in the VSC editor, you will quickly change your mind.

[Jacek Laskowski 57]

Maybe @jbg know trick to permanently enable this feature in editor?

[Guest]

I feel so old now...

[theking2 0]

So is there any news on this?