Support ligatures in terminal

[Tyriar]

Regresses with performance improvements in terminal's renderer #33954

[Mohamed3on]

Hi! is there any timeline for this feature?

[Tyriar]

Nope.

Here's the upstream issue xtermjs/xterm.js#958

[coreh]

Would be really nice if there was a setting to re-enable the old terminal rendering until all the issues with the new terminal are resolved (blurriness, ligatures, emoji). 😕

[MPV]

It seems there is now an xterm.js plugin for ligatures support:
https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm-addon-ligatures

How can we get it into vscode?

[Tyriar]

@MPV it would have to be built into the core, the main thing that needs to happen now is to evaluate how much weight the addon would add to the VS Code distributable.

[cziem]

This is how my vscode term looks like, I want it to look like this:

[Tyriar]

@Phavor I don't think your issue is about ligatures but rather your powerlines setup https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/integrated-terminal#_can-i-use-powerline-fonts-in-the-integrated-terminal

[cziem]

@Tyriar I fixed though. Thanks. This line did the job "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "'Fira Code iScript'"