I know this has been out for a while, but I missed the wave, and now I don't know what it's called.
What plugin is being used here to format the italics, single arrow icon, and combined equal signs? I primarily use VSCode.
Actually not a plug-in -- You're looking for a font that has both ligatures and cursive italics, like operator mono. Fair warning, it's not cheap!
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I have a custom fantasy script which looks like this (just the text portion):
It is a monospaced font built with FontForge. How can I add support for it to VSCode, so I can type in ASCII (like the left side here), and it outputs the random UTF-8 symbol mapped to the custom font in VSCode? So I can then save the file and have it be either a bunch of gobbledygook characters or the ASCII characters I originally typed?
Ideally this could be a plugin, so if you know of an open source VSCode plugin which I could use as inspiration, that would be a perfect answer as well.
I see how to set a custom font in VSCode, but (a) that is globally, and (b) it doesn't necessarily solve the typing problem. I just really would like to know how to do this, not necessarily requiring an answer to implement it.
Recommended UX is to have a "separate keyboard" for it, meaning typing the keys on the keyboard would result in different values. Maybe something like that can be done on a per-file basis?
Prettier is useful in most times. But, sometimes I want to put tap space in my code for enhanced reading of the code. Is there any way for put tap space in my code intentionally while using Prettier?
I think you mean tab spaces with a b not a p. if that's correct, then no, in general prettier does not allow for discretionary tabs, because it is what is known as an opinionated formatter, meaning that it has its own opinions about the way code should look.
If you want more control over your formatting, you can uninstall prettier and choose a different formatting extension instead, like beautify - or even just use the built-in VS code language features, which provide formatting and are fairly customizable.
In the settings section of VS code, you can search for terms like tab and white space to customize the behavior.
Scala allows to use the Unicode characters ← (\u2190) for <- and ⇒ (\u21D2) for =>
There are questions with answers on how to replace these characters (e.g. here and here) upon writing and even using post-processing (e.g. scala-style). These solutions however change the actual source-code. This means that if I'm using the Unicode style and my colleague isn't, we'll get a mix of styles in our source-code. Which in turn is something I dislike. (Meaning I'd rather use ASCII style arrows to prevent mixing styles.)
So I'm looking for a way to have a solution in the presentation-layer and not in representation. (like changing number-format using dot or comma for the decimal separator,.. it's not stored differently on disk.)
I'm aware that I could have Git do some funky stuff like it it does with line-endings for Windows, but I don't want to depend on Git for this. I just want IntelliJ (or Eclipse if someone knows how to fix it in Eclipse) to show me the Unicode arrows when it encounters the ASCII character version (preferably at the appropriate place, i.e. pattern-matching and for-comprehension).
Is this even possible in editors like IntelliJ and Eclipse? I'm willing to do some digging and writing plugins etc., but I'd rather not if it's not needed.
Since posting the question, IntelliJ has added native support to view arrows as if they are 1 character (called ligatures apparently).
From their whats new page:
We've added support for monospace font ligatures. To enable ligatures, go to Settings → Editor → Colors & Fonts → Font, choose a font that supports ligatures, e.g. FiraCode, Hasklig, Monoid or PragmataPro and select Enable font ligatures option.
If you want to see the lambdas as an arrow you can use the IDE settings.
I will go to IntelliJ Editor settings -> background, now enable the option "Enable ligatures".
I want to make a fallback for my icon font. For example, for my beautiful icon font check mark I use Unicode check mark equivalent:
.icon-checkmark {
&:before {
content: "\2713"; /* Unicode Character 'CHECK MARK' (U+2713) */
}
}
My icon font has character with code "\2713" also. If my icon font fails to load, user will see Unicode check mark; if icon font loads successfully, user will see icon font's beautiful check mark.
I'm searching for Unicode character equivalents for «email», «save» and «print» entities. Are there any or similar in Unicode tables? I have searched on http://www.fileformat.info/ but with no luck.
(I have found only an «email» character — http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4e7/browsertest.htm, but it does not work in Chrome 28 (it works in all other browsers however :).
Here's some ideas. I have not tested them on any browsers except Firefox on Linux.
Email: ✉, Unlikely:
Print: ⎙
Save: ↓, ▼
Edit: 💾 \U0001f4be could be used for saving since Unicode 6.x
I was also looking for save (floppy disk) symbol.
💾 symbol (mentioned in #Dark Falcon answer) is colored and not adjustable with its adjacent text colors.
I finally got 🖫 from graphemica.com
We can adjust it in any color by CSS color property.
🖫 white hard shell floppy disk for save (U+1F5AB)
✉ print screen symbol (U+2399)
⎙ envelope for email (U+2709)
Your question is actually two-fold: which Unicode code-points are useful for your purpose, and which Unicode code-points are covered with common font installations.
And it raises a new question: why do some programs (Chrome on Windows?) not show correct glyphs where other programs can?
Regarding the first two questions: as you can see, these days some really useful symbols just don't work on many systems out of the box.
Regarding the last question: I have no idea, but some insights on Linux:
Many programs (including Chrome) end up using fontconfig via one way or another. That library is responsible to find the fonts useful to display certain "text". At a higher level, the rendering is done with a mix of fonts, because for more challenging (web page) text there will always be a situation where one font won't cover everything there to display. Might the reason be that another style is requested or a code point is not covered.
So if Chrome on Linux does not show one thing or another, install fonts which have those glyphs (in a way that integrates well with fontconfig-configuration).
I have no idea what drives font-mixing on Windows.
There is alllll kinds of information out there about emacs color schemes, font locks, etc but I am having trouble getting where I want to be. Basically I would like to know what are some of the best font faces to set in order to have a nice solid color theme which is a good cross language solution. I am ending up with lots of language syntax (parens, brackets, operators, etc) not highlighted in some places when I expect them to be.
Below are the faces I am currently setting:
font-lock-builtin-face
font-lock-comment-face
font-lock-comment-delimiter-face
font-lock-doc-face
font-lock-doc-string-face
font-lock-function-name
font-lock-keyword-face
font-lock-negation-char-face
font-lock-preprocessor-face
font-lock-string-face
font-lock-type-face
font-lock-variable-name-face
What if any major faces am I missing here?
Don't do it like this. Choose a colour-theme that looks "okay" and when you're doing some work and find something unsatisfactory, customise that face to suite your taste.
I once knew someone who actually did an xlsfonts and opened an xterm for each one to decide which one he wanted to use while coding. Not thing kind of way I'd like to spend my time. :)
zenburn is a beautiful color theme. I use the terminus font on debian.
anyhow, I give up trying to use best font in GUI system. I revert to Raster Font, use in DOS Prompt / if it is in Linux, a TTY. Now that is so simple :)
My main workstation is Windows. There is (off course) native Win32 GUI version of Emacs, but I prefer to run it in DOS Command Prompt, using I am using emacs -nw. Using a few trick (write app that draw black border around screen edges), a found it able to make an illusion that it is in a console mode.
I love console mode :)