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		robert-boehnke on July 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ligatures in programming fonts Isn't the choice of font inherently an editor feature like syntax highlighting?

gvx on July 23, 2017 [–]

I don't think they're talking about the choice of font, but instead the choice of replacing certain character sequences (e.g. ->) with glyphs (e.g. →).

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