Re: Ligatures

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tassilo Horn <address@hidden>
> Cc: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>,
>   address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 17:36:44 +0200
> 
> I use the attached self-written ligature.el (Eli, you've helped me with
> that some months back).  That's all nice but sometimes I too have the
> problem that I want to edit the name of a "private" function/variable
> foo--do-stuff and cannot move point inside the double-dash because it is
> composed as one char.  As a little cure, I disable ligatures in the
> minibuffer where I absolutely need to do completion stuff like
> foo-<TAB>-bar.
> 
> Another case is where when inserting < automatically inserts >
> immediately giving a <> diamond where I cannot move into.

Yes, the user-level (and perhaps also some infrastructure level) of
support for ligatures is not yet ready.  There's a TODO item for that,
patches are welcome.

> A special insert command will not help here because it is already
> inserted.

Then maybe we need both a command to insert a character without
ligation, and a command to disassemble a ligature at point.