Almost freaked out when I saw this, thought it could be a new VSCode feature.
Turns out, it's a special ligature feature of the Maple Mono font https://font.subf.dev/
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@cheeaun Special programming ligatures are really awesome, but also for some reason I can never get used to them
@cheeaun I remember my mind being blown by the syntax highlighting font. I had to read the article three times before understanding what was happening. https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-highlighting/
@cheeaun I don't remember if the ligature feature is Turing complete. I thought you cannot do loops.
@cheeaun I hope the ligature is part of a font variant that can be used in the terminal but not code 😭
@kaninchenliebhabende i think it depends on the terminal's text renderer to support those ligatures.
@cheeaun this makes me think, I wonder if you could make a font that turns @usernames@server.tld into a pill, I guess it just depends on writing some super regex rules in your font or something
@liaizon There’s a really solid write-up of how to do something like this using free tools. I love the font they made: Sans Bullshit Sans. https://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/
@cheeaun
@liaizon you mean in the composer?
@liaizon it's already doable, without a custom font, if the composer is a WYSIWYG editor (X, Threads, Bsky, etc all use it) — pretty much allows you to style any chunks of text, though most just have simple styling for links, hashtags, etc.
Phanpy (and Mastodon web too) doesn't use it because WYSIWYG is… 😩
@cheeaun that looks incredibly handy!
@cheeaun@mastodon.social 😮 You can embed those into a font!?
@null yeah… there are coding fonts that does the usual fancy ligature stuff like convert -> to look like → (two chars, not one char) but this tag-like look is quite interesting 🤔