"{-" sequence looks weird

[narqo]

While most of the ligatures are great, the sequence of characters {- looks weird for my taste.

A typical case in Go language is to specify the content of a slice/array/map within a single line. But if a slice of integers starts with a negative number, it turned into a mess of characters.

For example, here is how a slice {-25, -160} looks like in IDEA:

I use IDEA 2016.x with FiraCode 1.102.

[tonsky]

Yep. Initially it's a Haskell comment ligature (I think). I think I'd better remove it or move to stylistic set

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While most of the ligatures are great, the sequence of characters {- looks weird for my taste.

A typical case in Go language is to specify the content of a slice/array/map within a single line. So if a slice of integers starts with a negative number, it turned into a mess.

For example, here is how a slice {-25, -160} looks like in IDEA:

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[DylanRJohnston]

Is there some way we can choose which ligatures we want on / off? I work with Haskell and quite like the [] and {- -} ligatures. In fact a large number of the ligatures you've removed in the past are really useful in Haskell since it's such an infix operator heavy language.

[tonsky]

Not yet, but I think something like that is needed

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Is there some way we can choose which ligatures we want on / off? I write in Haskell and quite like the [] and {- -} ligatures.

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[maddes]

Maybe creating variants? Like FiraCodeHaskell, FiraCodeJs, etc… New ligatures an improvements could be added to all and then removed as requested :P So if I work on a particular IDE for PHP, I use FiraCodePHP, for Haskell some other and such. Even maybe a FiraCodeConsole variant would ease some of the problems.

[maddes]

And then the ultimate feature would be to be able to select the font for each type of file with .editorconfig. Obviously not on your scope.

[QuingKhaos]

Oh sad, that would have looked nice in Twig, where {{- variable name -}} is used for whitespace control (compared to {{ variable_name }} without whitespace control.

[dhouck]

Your other issue, #408, is probably better; whether or not {- is a ligature, {{- can be, and it is used less often (though not never) in non-template code.