spacemacs 2020-10-07 | Slack Archive

practicalli-johnny16:10:14

Changes to the practicalli/spacemacs.d configuration for Spacemacs. Now recommending Emacs 27.1 as its the current stable version and it supports ligatures (stylized character pairs). • renamed Git branch to live (update your remote urls) • added unicode ligature support • Switched to using Fira code font as this has ligature support • Updated the doom modeline theme for a nice minimal look without loosing any important information • Added font rendering optimizations • custom snippets: deprecated and design journal banners, rich code block with clj-kondo ignore duplicate vars

spfeiffer17:10:07

What means „supports ligatures“? I have Fira Code with Ligatures for quite some time. Things got easier?

practicalli-johnny17:10:30

Emacs 27 now uses the HarfBuzz as its shaping engine by default, which provides extensive ligature and other fancy text rendering.... I don't know what it was like before, but I just changed the font and added the unicode-font layer with a variable to enable ligature support.

practicalli-johnny17:10:41

;; Support font ligatures (fancy symbols) in all modes
     ;; 'prog-mode for only programming languages
     ;; including text-mode may cause issues with org-mode and magit
     (unicode-fonts :variables
                    unicode-fonts-enable-ligatures t
                    unicode-fonts-ligature-modes '(prog-mode))

That's it

lread17:10:52

Oh that’s cool, I can now get rid of that special setup under user-config!

spfeiffer17:10:04

Yes, did not know that. I also had the special setup to get Ligatures going

2020-10-07

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