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Juan E. Maya edited this page Feb 2, 2018 · 21 revisions

Put this lisp in your .emacs (thanks Sean Farley for putting this together; extended by Jason Blevins):

(when (window-system)
  (set-default-font "Fira Code"))
(let ((alist '((33 . ".\\(?:\\(?:==\\|!!\\)\\|[!=]\\)")
               (35 . ".\\(?:###\\|##\\|_(\\|[#(?[_{]\\)")
               (36 . ".\\(?:>\\)")
               (37 . ".\\(?:\\(?:%%\\)\\|%\\)")
               (38 . ".\\(?:\\(?:&&\\)\\|&\\)")
               (42 . ".\\(?:\\(?:\\*\\*/\\)\\|\\(?:\\*[*/]\\)\\|[*/>]\\)")
               (43 . ".\\(?:\\(?:\\+\\+\\)\\|[+>]\\)")
               (45 . ".\\(?:\\(?:-[>-]\\|<<\\|>>\\)\\|[<>}~-]\\)")
               (46 . ".\\(?:\\(?:\\.[.<]\\)\\|[.=-]\\)")
               (47 . ".\\(?:\\(?:\\*\\*\\|//\\|==\\)\\|[*/=>]\\)")
               (48 . ".\\(?:x[a-zA-Z]\\)")
               (58 . ".\\(?:::\\|[:=]\\)")
               (59 . ".\\(?:;;\\|;\\)")
               (60 . ".\\(?:\\(?:!--\\)\\|\\(?:~~\\|->\\|\\$>\\|\\*>\\|\\+>\\|--\\|<[<=-]\\|=[<=>]\\||>\\)\\|[*$+~/<=>|-]\\)")
               (61 . ".\\(?:\\(?:/=\\|:=\\|<<\\|=[=>]\\|>>\\)\\|[<=>~]\\)")
               (62 . ".\\(?:\\(?:=>\\|>[=>-]\\)\\|[=>-]\\)")
               (63 . ".\\(?:\\(\\?\\?\\)\\|[:=?]\\)")
               (91 . ".\\(?:]\\)")
               (92 . ".\\(?:\\(?:\\\\\\\\\\)\\|\\\\\\)")
               (94 . ".\\(?:=\\)")
               (119 . ".\\(?:ww\\)")
               (123 . ".\\(?:-\\)")
               (124 . ".\\(?:\\(?:|[=|]\\)\\|[=>|]\\)")
               (126 . ".\\(?:~>\\|~~\\|[>=@~-]\\)")
               )
             ))
  (dolist (char-regexp alist)
    (set-char-table-range composition-function-table (car char-regexp)
                          `([,(cdr char-regexp) 0 font-shape-gstring]))))

Note! If you get error in process filter: Attempt to shape unibyte text, check out this issue. Emacs Cider users may avoid this issue by commenting the following line from the above config:

;; (46 . ".\\(?:\\(?:\\.[.<]\\)\\|[.=-]\\)")

If you are having problems with helm you can disable ligatures in helm:

   (add-hook 'helm-major-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (setq auto-composition-mode nil)))

If you're using the latest railwaycat Mac port of Emacs, you can instead use:

(mac-auto-operator-composition-mode)

None of the above worked for me for emacs 24.5.1 on Debian Linux. So, after @siegebell made Fira Code Symbol font due to https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/211 I spent several hours putting the following together which works for me:

;;; Fira code
;; This works when using emacs --daemon + emacsclient
(add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions (lambda (frame) (set-fontset-font t '(#Xe100 . #Xe16f) "Fira Code Symbol")))
;; This works when using emacs without server/client
(set-fontset-font t '(#Xe100 . #Xe16f) "Fira Code Symbol")
;; I haven't found one statement that makes both of the above situations work, so I use both for now

(defconst fira-code-font-lock-keywords-alist
  (mapcar (lambda (regex-char-pair)
            `(,(car regex-char-pair)
              (0 (prog1 ()
                   (compose-region (match-beginning 1)
                                   (match-end 1)
                                   ;; The first argument to concat is a string containing a literal tab
                                   ,(concat "	" (list (decode-char 'ucs (cadr regex-char-pair)))))))))
          '(("\\(www\\)"                   #Xe100)
            ("[^/]\\(\\*\\*\\)[^/]"        #Xe101)
            ("\\(\\*\\*\\*\\)"             #Xe102)
            ("\\(\\*\\*/\\)"               #Xe103)
            ("\\(\\*>\\)"                  #Xe104)
            ("[^*]\\(\\*/\\)"              #Xe105)
            ("\\(\\\\\\\\\\)"              #Xe106)
            ("\\(\\\\\\\\\\\\\\)"          #Xe107)
            ("\\({-\\)"                    #Xe108)
            ("\\(\\[\\]\\)"                #Xe109)
            ("\\(::\\)"                    #Xe10a)
            ("\\(:::\\)"                   #Xe10b)
            ("[^=]\\(:=\\)"                #Xe10c)
            ("\\(!!\\)"                    #Xe10d)
            ("\\(!=\\)"                    #Xe10e)
            ("\\(!==\\)"                   #Xe10f)
            ("\\(-}\\)"                    #Xe110)
            ("\\(--\\)"                    #Xe111)
            ("\\(---\\)"                   #Xe112)
            ("\\(-->\\)"                   #Xe113)
            ("[^-]\\(->\\)"                #Xe114)
            ("\\(->>\\)"                   #Xe115)
            ("\\(-<\\)"                    #Xe116)
            ("\\(-<<\\)"                   #Xe117)
            ("\\(-~\\)"                    #Xe118)
            ("\\(#{\\)"                    #Xe119)
            ("\\(#\\[\\)"                  #Xe11a)
            ("\\(##\\)"                    #Xe11b)
            ("\\(###\\)"                   #Xe11c)
            ("\\(####\\)"                  #Xe11d)
            ("\\(#(\\)"                    #Xe11e)
            ("\\(#\\?\\)"                  #Xe11f)
            ("\\(#_\\)"                    #Xe120)
            ("\\(#_(\\)"                   #Xe121)
            ("\\(\\.-\\)"                  #Xe122)
            ("\\(\\.=\\)"                  #Xe123)
            ("\\(\\.\\.\\)"                #Xe124)
            ("\\(\\.\\.<\\)"               #Xe125)
            ("\\(\\.\\.\\.\\)"             #Xe126)
            ("\\(\\?=\\)"                  #Xe127)
            ("\\(\\?\\?\\)"                #Xe128)
            ("\\(;;\\)"                    #Xe129)
            ("\\(/\\*\\)"                  #Xe12a)
            ("\\(/\\*\\*\\)"               #Xe12b)
            ("\\(/=\\)"                    #Xe12c)
            ("\\(/==\\)"                   #Xe12d)
            ("\\(/>\\)"                    #Xe12e)
            ("\\(//\\)"                    #Xe12f)
            ("\\(///\\)"                   #Xe130)
            ("\\(&&\\)"                    #Xe131)
            ("\\(||\\)"                    #Xe132)
            ("\\(||=\\)"                   #Xe133)
            ("[^|]\\(|=\\)"                #Xe134)
            ("\\(|>\\)"                    #Xe135)
            ("\\(\\^=\\)"                  #Xe136)
            ("\\(\\$>\\)"                  #Xe137)
            ("\\(\\+\\+\\)"                #Xe138)
            ("\\(\\+\\+\\+\\)"             #Xe139)
            ("\\(\\+>\\)"                  #Xe13a)
            ("\\(=:=\\)"                   #Xe13b)
            ("[^!/]\\(==\\)[^>]"           #Xe13c)
            ("\\(===\\)"                   #Xe13d)
            ("\\(==>\\)"                   #Xe13e)
            ("[^=]\\(=>\\)"                #Xe13f)
            ("\\(=>>\\)"                   #Xe140)
            ("\\(<=\\)"                    #Xe141)
            ("\\(=<<\\)"                   #Xe142)
            ("\\(=/=\\)"                   #Xe143)
            ("\\(>-\\)"                    #Xe144)
            ("\\(>=\\)"                    #Xe145)
            ("\\(>=>\\)"                   #Xe146)
            ("[^-=]\\(>>\\)"               #Xe147)
            ("\\(>>-\\)"                   #Xe148)
            ("\\(>>=\\)"                   #Xe149)
            ("\\(>>>\\)"                   #Xe14a)
            ("\\(<\\*\\)"                  #Xe14b)
            ("\\(<\\*>\\)"                 #Xe14c)
            ("\\(<|\\)"                    #Xe14d)
            ("\\(<|>\\)"                   #Xe14e)
            ("\\(<\\$\\)"                  #Xe14f)
            ("\\(<\\$>\\)"                 #Xe150)
            ("\\(<!--\\)"                  #Xe151)
            ("\\(<-\\)"                    #Xe152)
            ("\\(<--\\)"                   #Xe153)
            ("\\(<->\\)"                   #Xe154)
            ("\\(<\\+\\)"                  #Xe155)
            ("\\(<\\+>\\)"                 #Xe156)
            ("\\(<=\\)"                    #Xe157)
            ("\\(<==\\)"                   #Xe158)
            ("\\(<=>\\)"                   #Xe159)
            ("\\(<=<\\)"                   #Xe15a)
            ("\\(<>\\)"                    #Xe15b)
            ("[^-=]\\(<<\\)"               #Xe15c)
            ("\\(<<-\\)"                   #Xe15d)
            ("\\(<<=\\)"                   #Xe15e)
            ("\\(<<<\\)"                   #Xe15f)
            ("\\(<~\\)"                    #Xe160)
            ("\\(<~~\\)"                   #Xe161)
            ("\\(</\\)"                    #Xe162)
            ("\\(</>\\)"                   #Xe163)
            ("\\(~@\\)"                    #Xe164)
            ("\\(~-\\)"                    #Xe165)
            ("\\(~=\\)"                    #Xe166)
            ("\\(~>\\)"                    #Xe167)
            ("[^<]\\(~~\\)"                #Xe168)
            ("\\(~~>\\)"                   #Xe169)
            ("\\(%%\\)"                    #Xe16a)
           ;; ("\\(x\\)"                   #Xe16b) This ended up being hard to do properly so i'm leaving it out.
            ("[^:=]\\(:\\)[^:=]"           #Xe16c)
            ("[^\\+<>]\\(\\+\\)[^\\+<>]"   #Xe16d)
            ("[^\\*/<>]\\(\\*\\)[^\\*/<>]" #Xe16f))))

(defun add-fira-code-symbol-keywords ()
  (font-lock-add-keywords nil fira-code-font-lock-keywords-alist))

(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook
          #'add-fira-code-symbol-keywords)

On some systems, == will appear incorrectly as a blank space in certain modes unless you add the following lines to your init file:

(set-language-environment "UTF-8")
(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)

Alternative instruction

https://github.com/Profpatsch/blog/blob/master/posts/ligature-emulation-in-emacs/post.md#appendix-b-update-1-firacode-integration