Closed kurtmilam closed 5 years ago
Yes, I want to fix this in Ramda too; it's just never made it to the top of the list. What I really want to do is to use Fira Code
, a font with programmers' ligatures, which I first noticed on Tom Harding's site (for example, on his Setoid overview.)
This would allow users to cut and paste ->
but still have it appear as a readable arrow.
I think this would improve things quite a bit.
@CrossEye That sounds like a good solution!
I use Fira
in VSCode, where I mostly write PureScript (still learning), but I also take advantage of the fact that PureScript allows unicode characters like ∷
, ∀
, ⇒
and →
:)
Examples:
@kurtmilam, might it be possible to write a few lines of JavaScript to intercept the copy event?
@CrossEye, if you have Fira Code installed you should see it in use on the Sanctuary website.
@davidchambers: Interesting. When I tried copying the chain
signature to Hoogle earlier in the day, I got the same result that Kurt described. Now it works fine. Did this change recently, or could it be a difference between Windows and Ubuntu?
@CrossEye, were you copying from the website or from the readme? The script that generates the website removes WORD JOINER characters.
@davidchambers That sounds like an interesting solution. I'll do some research as soon as I get a chance.
I'm on a Mac and copied the sigs from the readme, btw.
That sounds like an interesting solution. I'll do some research as soon as I get a chance.
My suggestion was misleading. I mistakenly assumed the problem applies to the website, but after investigating I convinced myself that it only applies to the readme.
I'm ready to revert plaid/transcribe#14, as it introduced more problems than it solved (in addition to the copy and paste problem, Safari incorrectly renders WORD JOINER characters as spaces).
@kurtmilam, if you have a chance please open an issue and include a link to this one. I think further discussion should take place in Transcribe's issue tracker.
Ah, OK. I had just worked out a solution to remove the WORD JOIN character on the copy event and was going to see how / whether it was possible to run javascript on a GitHub md
page 😄
@davidchambers: Perhaps I switched from one to the other when I switched from work (Windows) to home (Mac). I didn't check.
Also, for posterity, the screenshots I shared above, which I thought were showing Fira Code, were actually showing Hasklig, which also supports ligatures.
I had specified Fira Code as the primary font in my editor, but I'd somehow managed to bungle font's installation.
I've rectified that now 😄
@kurtmilam OT, but I prefer Hasklig to Fira anyway because Fira is too skinny for me anyway. :wink:
I was using a fork of Hasklig called Blackfont for a while that had better support for JS ligatures, but still looks the same.
Now I am using the ligature variant of Fantasque Sans which is more pleasing to my eyes but has less ligatures.
It would be nice to be able to copy a function signature from SanctuaryJS docs and paste it into Hoogle or Pursuit to find equivalent or similar functions in Haskell or PureScript.
Unfortunately, the use of
WORD JOINER
/U+2060
in->
and friends in SanctuaryJS function signatures makes it harder to do this.Searching for the Haskell and PureScript equivalent of Sanctuary's
chain
function (fn sig copied directly from the SanctuaryJS docs):Haskell:
PureScript:
Ramda uses the
→
character, which works in Pursuit, but not in Hoogle: