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Ligature request: `==~`

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Description

We have now ligatures for =~ and !~.
But I miss a ligature for ==~.
In Groovy for example =~ is the "find" operator, building a regex matcher with the regex on the right applied to the string on the left and the matcher's Groovy truth is whether the regex matches somewhere within the string.
And ==~ is the "matches" operator, that returns whether the whole string on the left completely matches the regex on the right.

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No file or test is named. Start by locating the existing =~ and !~ ligature definitions, then inspect how a new ==~ ligature is represented and rendered. Done means the sequence renders as a ligature without changing the existing operators, including in Groovy examples.

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Tech stack
groovy
Domain
design
Issue type
Feature
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3/5
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1-2 days
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