Feature Request: Ligature support for infinite dashes, hyphens and equals

[hankertrix]

Some programming fonts like Fira Code and Cascadia Code support infinite dashes, hyphens and equals as they are often used in CLI apps to display loading. It would be great if Maple Mono supports these as well!

Fira code:

Cascadia Code:

[subframe7536]

It has been discussed and currently I am negative on this feature: #293 (comment)

Can you share your use case?

[hankertrix]

Ohhh.

Sure, my main use case is to have nicer-looking Markdown tables:

| Test | Result |
| ---- | ------ |
| 1    | Pass   |
| 2    | Failed |
| 3    | Failed |
| 4    | Pass   |

If the lines are connected it looks nicer, in my opinion, as shown with Cascadia Code below:

Versus Maple Mono:

Another big use case is progress bars, as shown with Cascadia Code below:

Versus Maple Mono:

[subframe7536]

Fair enough. I will try it after v7.1 released.

Note: FiraCode's implemention in hyphen arrow and equal arrow

[hankertrix]

That's awesome! Thank you!

[Cyberczy]

I also want to add this. This style looks better in duf and tokei.

Maple Mono:

Cascadia Code:

Besides, I hope Maple Mono can look like it does in the duf demo image.