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note you can kinda use ligatures in emacs by doing something like

https://gist.github.com/pcstl/2d9b28a74d6f9254586c2d58d54590...

This replaces -> and whatnot with unicode equivalents, right?

There are a LOT of problems with that. First and foremost you really do want double character width for these symbols in the iosevka format. Stuff like → is microscopic.

it also seems to adjust the spacing, I have used it with FiraCode and it seems to work correctly. Note my main font is DejaVu Sans, with this I just use the Fira Code symbols for the "ligatures"

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