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Use font ligatures to add symbols to your code

Use font ligatures to add symbols to your code - Visual Studio Code Tutorial

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Use font ligatures to add symbols to your code

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- [Instructor] Someone discovered that font ligatures make it easy to add clarifying symbols to your code and text files. To partake, you'll need to install a monospace font with the appropriate ligatures included in the character set. There are several to choose from. I picked FiraCode for this demo, which is available here at GitHub. Scroll down to this download link, download a copy of the font files, install on your computer, and then switch to Visual Studio Code. This is the sample code I'll be working with. Before I change the font, let's bring up the settings screen and to make it easier to see the changes I'll take this tab and pull it down, slide it over to the other side of the screen, and this gives me two tabs next to each other. Now when I make the changes in the settings, you can see them instantly up here, over here in this code. So I'll start by adding the font. So let's look for font. Here's the current font order: If I have Consolas installed it will use that, if not…

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