I & many are expect true ligature support by enabling them to be used JIT rather than add anything to vimrc other than to turn them off for those who are *not* using monospace typefaces for whatever reason & don't want such typefaces have their ligatures activated that are not oriented for fode. On Saturday, September 5, 2015 at 2:09:43 PM UTC-4, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 11:13:03 AM UTC+2, Kevin Lozandier wrote: > > Ligature support being added to Vim I highly recommend being pursued more > > than ever. > > > > Mainstream monospace fonts are now supporting ligatures that add sensible > > & rational value to everyday programmers. > > > > Montotype fonts with ligatures allow programmers to more clearly see the > > intent of typed code. To account for those who have unique requirements to > > use non-monotype fonts, this should be an explicit option added to Vim > > 7.5/8. > > You mean the following? > ff U+FB00 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FF > fi U+FB01 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI > fl U+FB02 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FL > ffi U+FB03 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFI > ffl U+FB04 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFL > ſt U+FB05 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE LONG S T > st U+FB06 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE ST > > Vim already supports them (with +multi_byte compiled-in, some iconv library > available if it is dynamically linked, and 'encoding' set to UTF-8, of > course). IIRC, it already supported them in version 6.2 and maybe earlier. > > If you want to make these ligatures more easily accessible and not have to > remember their character codes, you could for instance add the following to > your vimrc: > > dig ff 64256 fi 64257 fl 64258 qi 64259 ql 64260 qt 64261 st 64262 > > and voilà: from there, Ctrl-K f f (three keystrokes, the first one a two-key > chord) in Insert mode gives ff (one character) in the file being edited. > > See: > :help :digraphs > http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFB00.pdf > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode > etc.
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