Firacode: Deligaturizing "=<"

Created on 28 Apr 2019 · 6Comments · Source: tonsky/FiraCode

I discovered that "=<" is converted to "≤" while writing docopt-style CLI descriptions (--key=<value> turns into --key≤value>). Maybe this is unintentional?

Fantastic work on this project, by the way. I've found it very helpful and enjoyable!

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MasonMcGill

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Maybe there should be a "FiraCode Terminal" font specially for use in the terminal?
Like what Iosevka does. I believe =< should stay, not removed.

boyedarat on 6 May 2019

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It’s intentional (I think Erlang uses =< instead of <=), but you raise a valid concern. Maybe it should be removed. Thanks!

tonsky on 28 Apr 2019

Maybe there should be a "FiraCode Terminal" font specially for use in the terminal?
Like what Iosevka does. I believe =< should stay, not removed.

boyedarat on 6 May 2019

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just noticed that in the mac os terminal =< is not contracted into a ligature. don't know if the reason is the fiera code version (old) or if it is a feature of terminal.app.

justme-1968 on 16 May 2019

I'm confused, hadn't the =< ligature already been removed?
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/commit/b96ceee8b651ef9f05f4971799d54591c4c9d7ed

miniBill on 24 May 2019

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I installed FiraCode today directly from the repo and am not seeing a ligature for =<. It's too bad, I was hoping for one because =< is indeed "less than or equal to" in Erlang, as @tonsky pointed out.

This does seem like an unfortunate conflict with docopt.