Honest question: Why would you want ligatures in plaintext? Especially in code, wouldn't that be weird as some people tend to manually align their code? Like,<p><pre><code> modular_raft = 10
spam = 20
</code></pre>
The "ft" in modular_raft should convert to a ligature so (I assume) it will then take one character, instead of two. Then developers viewing that source would have different alignments, depending on whether they use Sublime 3 or not.<p>(EDIT: Formatting.)
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I nearly quit sublime after using an editor that supported this feature for a month. While sublime is vastly superior in my mind to most other editors (spacemacs and Vim in my book not withstanding) I make a lot of use of icons in the Nerd Fonts for custom icons so this is a huge plus for me.<p>In my haste: forgot to link to the nerd fonts page! <a href="https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts</a><p>For what it’s worth, I may be a tad OCD about how my desktop looks and feels :P
I love the idea of ligatures, but I don't find Fira Code very comfortable. Any other recommendations?<p>EDIT: Some fonts I like are Courier New and Droid Sans Mono.
It seems to work but it does render certain ligatures incorrectly on OS X for me. For example, <* is rendered as the <> ligature and <- is rendered as </. Since it's a dev build, I'm sure it will take some ironing out before it hits the stable version but this is really promising!
Yay!<p>Now if only the TypeScript plugin were more reliable. Ligatures and TS support were the things making me consider switching. The TS plugin for Sublime is disappointingly buggy.
Excited about this for the increased support for non-Latin languages and the code ligatures, but sad that it is pegging 2 cores at nearly 100%. Will look forward to when this is fully stable.
I think Sublime Text is very good but has fallen behind in terms of version control. I think Atom and VS Code are winning the war right now. Especially because the latter are free.