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Commit Mono font does something similar and calls it “Smart kerning”. Visit https://commitmono.com/ and click on the “04 Intelligent” for details.
In practice this is unusable. Because the width of the letters now depends on the succeeding character, the text jumps as you write it. Super annoying.
Cool for reading. Awful for writing.
Sadly I think that because of that flag it does not enable ligatures.
I was able to see ligatures and text healing in vim running in a patched st* though. I really like it thanks! The text healing only moves the line subtly as I type and when I cursor over there are no droppings from the widened 'm' for example. It's well thought-out for code.
If I could ask for a feature it would be to select some variants, like angular 0 with reverse slash or to leave the ! in the != ligature. To see what I mean: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/blob/main/doc/stylistic-...
* https://st.suckless.org/patches/ligatures/
From https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace?tab=readme-ov-file#v...
> If you want coding ligatures but do not want texture healing, you can elide the calt setting:
I'm staying on BitstromWera Nerd Font. Works great with Starship.
https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads
https://starship.rs