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Really cool, but what, if any, are the plans to get it working with Vim? It's the universal editor you're likely to find everywhere.

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Vim isn't there problem, it's your terminal. There is an open feature request with iterm2, but terminal.app is probably a lost cause. I know nothing about the state of Unicode font rendering in Linux.

It works fine under konsole 15.08.

Konsole is the only terminal emulator I could get it working with, which is annoying because I much prefer rxvt. Konsole does weird stuff with my terminal colors in tmux, so I ended up not being able to use this nice font when I tried it previously.

Have you tried urxvt, by any chance?

Tried to get it at least readable for 15 mins or so and gave up: http://paste.click/msFBVy

Tried all kinds of variations of

    > fnt="xft:Fira code:pixelsize=10:size=15"; urxvt -fn "$fnt" -fb "$fnt" -fi "$fnt" -fbi "$fnt" -letsp -1

Can't get the font spacing to not be massive and the ligatures don't work.

My build is:

    rxvt-unicode (urxvt) v9.21 - released: 2014-12-31
    options: perl,xft,styles,combining,blink,iso14755,unicode3,encodings=eu+vn+jp+jp-ext+kr+zh+zh-ext,fade,transparent,tint,pixbuf,XIM,frills,selectionscrolling,wheel,slipwheel,smart-resize,cursorBlink,pointerBlank,scrollbars=plain+rxvt+NeXT+xterm

Edit: Tried hasklig that was mentioned. Ligatures still don't work but the spacing is fine: http://paste.click/cEWQZs

By "rxvt" I meant rxvt-unicode/urxvt. I'm quite fond of it, but it doesn't support glyph ligatures.

What about gVim?

Strangely enough, I had Terminal.app listed as not supported (at it wasn’t when I checked).

But checking now, ligatures render just fine. Yay! (that implies console vim & emacs, of course)

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