Disable ligatures on current line

[csholmq]

In Atom, I use

atom-text-editor::shadow .cursor-line {
  -webkit-font-feature-settings: "liga" off, "calt" off;
}

div.find-and-replace atom-text-editor::shadow .line {
  -webkit-font-feature-settings: "liga" off, "calt" off;
}

to disable ligature rendering on the current line and in the Find and Replace window. Ligatures are nice to look at, but not to edit while rendered.

Atom :+1:

VSCode :-1:

[jeanm]

This would be really great to have. I'm finding it quite hard to work with C++/Rust templates because my programming font has >> and >>> ligatures. As a result I cannot see where my cursor is when moving it through the angle brackets. I cannot even e.g. click to place the cursor between the two <<. I would almost consider this a bug rather than a feature request.

A slightly different approach to the parent's suggestion would be to disable ligature rendering when the cursor is adjacent to the ligature, or between the characters forming it.

[csholmq]

@jeanm Most elegant, if possible.

[csholmq]

@alexandrudima Kind of missed the May 2016 milestone :)

[CoenraadS]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CoenraadS.disableligatures

• Relies on undefined behaviour afaik, so may break in the future.

[csholmq]

@CoenraadS your extension solves this issue.