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that looks amazing, but I kinda wish that certain ligatures were optional (which they might be, need to look at the CSS docs again for atom)

I (personally) don't exactly want == to look too similar to a single =, after all!

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They don't. The == variant is has double the width.

I am aware, I still find them too similar for my likings

Have you tried the font? = and == has 3× difference in width, it’s hard to mistake one for another. I’m using Fira Code for a year now, never had mixed them up

At least for me, monospaced fonts are very helpful for looking at column specific features. == and === are row specific, so seeing the delimiters between them makes them easier to parse on a row level for me.

`===` is triple stroked in these fonts, but that is probably not enough for you. Just saying though! :)

Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't notice! I think that I could get used to that.

I upvoted your post on account of the dry humour.

> I (personally) don't exactly want == to look too similar to a single =, after all!

Me, either!

Amusingly (irritatingly?), /== has separation between the = characters. :/

I... have no idea why ~= turns into ~-on-top-of-= and =~ into =-on-top-of-~ . Some of these glyphs just seem ill-advised. :(

tilde-equals is the "inequal" operator in Lua, so I suppose that makes some degree of sense. Then again, the equals-tilde makes zero sense.

Escape using zero-width space character to break up the ligatures ...

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