Allow disabling ligatures for <$
Nobody has claimed this yet.
- Dominant language
- Clojure
- Stars
- 82k
- Forks
- 3.2k
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Hi,
It is a common pattern in JS to use the character $ to mean something special, or as a prefix/suffix.
The problem when doing this in TS at the type level is that it can be surrounded by angle brackets, then haskell ligatures kick in and it looks a little weird.

Contributor guide
No contributing guide indexed for this repository
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file or test is named in the issue. Start by reproducing the TypeScript pattern where $ is surrounded by angle brackets and compare the rendered result with the requested behavior. Done means the unwanted ligature can be disabled for this pattern without changing the intended rendering of other sequences.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, typescript
- Domain
- design
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100