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Sublime Text to display R native pipe |> ligature with Fira Code


I am using R in Sublime Text with Fira Code, and would like to display the new native Pipe |> as a triangle ligature.

This works well with most syntaxes, but not in the R syntax, where it actually matters:

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Any idea what I could do?


Solution

  • As this also came up yesterday on Twitter in this tweet with the follow-up a few hours later in this tweet pointing to a pending PR and this compelling picture:

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    which I am just posting to bring closure here.

    Signed, someone who locally compiled Emacs a while back to get a newer version for ligatures onto his workstation / into his distro :) Loving it too.