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Add prettified symbols #500

Closed J3RN closed 1 year ago

J3RN commented 1 year ago

Emacs 24.4 (released circa 2014) introduced a minor mode called prettify-symbols-mode that, when enabled, will replace a string with a symbol according to the prettify-symbols-alist.

As such, and following loosely from rust-mode, I added a small set of pretty intuitive symbols for common Elixir constructs.

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victorolinasc commented 1 year ago

IMHO this should be at least optional and off-by-default. If we enable this by default I really think we are in for a big discussion thread about opinions.

We can, however, add this in a section in the README? I'm planning on a tips and tricks section to help newcomers and this could be in there.

Wdyt?

victorolinasc commented 1 year ago

I've added this configuration option in #505. Please, see if it does the trick for this optional feature.

If you still think we should add this built-in, please add one option so that this is opt-in (and not default). I've seen my share of font flame wars kkk. Even if default, we should provide an easy way to turn it off.

Thanks!