Feature request - Ligatures

[rowanmoor]

Could you consider adding support for ligatures to PL/SQL Developer, please? The editor is starting to look and feel quite dated now for the lack of support for ligatures in the fonts. These days even windows command prompts and other shells can be used with ligature supporting modern fonts.

Many of us use modern fonts like FiraCode which include a lot of coding ligatures. When you use a number of different langauges and all the IDEs are set up to use coding fonts with ligatures PL/SQL Developer really stands out, and not in a good way.

 

[Marco Kalter]

Can you provide an example that is not working for you?

 

[rowanmoor]

Some common examples using the FiraCode font are => != >= etc. They display in PL/SQL developer just the same as they are showing here (as 2 sperate characters) rather than the way they are meant to show as described in the FiraCode documentation:

 

[domel76]

Ligatures works only in comment and strings.

Font: JetBrains Mono (but other fonts too)

 

[domel76]

Ligatures works only in comment and strings.

Font: JetBrains Mono (but other fonts too)

 

[William Robertson]

(I commented that this was fixed in PL/SQL Developer 14.0.4, but just realised it's not - it's only in comments and strings as mentioned earlier, sorry.)

 

[vlevi]

I tried this fonts in Delphi, Visual Studio, and now in PL/SQL Developer. For me, they are horrible. Unusable. Maybe it needs a 4K monitor with big font sizes, but I have 27", 1440p resolution, 10pixel font size, and these fonts does not look nice. They are blurry, vertical and horizontal lines look different.
And the lignatures. Have you tried to distinguish between the = , == and javascript === ???

 

[nmajdan]

Bumping this up to the top as it appears to still be an issue in version 15.0.0.2050 and I don't see where Marco did his normal acknowledgement that it would be looked at in a future version.

Just to reiterate, in version 15.0.0.2050, ligatures only work in comments or strings.