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Would this work in vs code only?
It's a font. It'll work anywhere
Even the textual healing? That seems to require a dynamic process that analyses the text, no?
Or are fonts capable of that?
basically fonts were already capable of using alternate versions of characters based on their nearby characters, so they used that for these fonts to allow for seemingly-dynamic sizing/spacing
I was actually gonna ask about this point, thanks for the context.
Open type fonts have these capabilities built in. It's up to the designer to implement it in useful ways like this.
It’s in the article:
Do modern IDEs allow for setting different fonts for comments, human written code, Copilot written code, etc? I don't do much actual coding these days, so it's been a while. I'm used to just seeing different colors but for things like comments and reserved words, but not fonts like they showed in the examples.
Not copilot code specifically, but you can select different fonts for comments and regular code, yeah