Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

[alfredbez]

see also https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/dev-build-3145/32340 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15413543

[mrolla]

I think it's worth mentioning that for now it's only in dev builds, which a lot of people don't know the existence of.

[thevasya]

Right, it would be nice to mention that it only works with dev builds from 3146 and up.

[alfredbez]

Thanks, I added a commit which mentions that

[tonsky]

Let’s wait till the proper support. So far lots of bugs and only Windows is supported, is that right?

[alfredbez]

[...] only Windows is supported [...]

No, I'm using this on Ubuntu:

[asfktz]

Works on my mac too:

[thevasya]

Yeah, I'm also using Ubuntu, and it seems to be working, at least with JavaScript files. There are people who report issues though, and the current implementation probably has a lot of small bugs.

Quick example. Here is some code with built-in Erlang syntax.

And here is the same code with built-in Erlang (HTML) syntax.

The first example tries to draw a ligature, but it can't connect more than two equality signs for whatever reason. It might be because equality in Erlang only needs two signs, but still it should properly transform != then.

[tonsky]

@thevasya yeah, other editors went through this too. It’s because syntax highlighter actually breaks sequences sometimes

@asfktz @alfredbez thx for confirming, my mistake

Merging now.

FINALLY! YAY!