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In my settings I have:
"editor.fontLigatures": true,
"editor.fontFamily": "Fira Code, Comic Sans MS, Tahoma, Consolas",
and I've tried (according to this) different combinations of apostrophes, spaces and capitalization. No matter what I do, I get Comic Sans to pop (or some plain, weird junk if I only specify Fira Code with no secondary font.
I verified that I've installed all the fonts from their GitHub and I can see the fonts in the list in my text processor (of course they do look as supposed to when typed with said font too). I also tried sweeten up the process using choco install FiraCode, reported as successful.
The ligatures are turned set to true, as shown above. The latest version of VSC is installed and the system is rebooted to the borders of ridiculity. I have almost no extensions and those few I had, I deactivated.
What else can I do to troubleshoot the issue?
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To enable font ligatures in Visual Studio Code you will need to edit the settings. json file. To do this open the VS Code settings (File -> Preferences -> Settings) select the Text Editor group and Font settings. Replace the name of the font with the font you would like to use.
To enable FiraCode in the settings editor: under "Commonly Used", expand the "Text Editor" settings and then click on "Font". In the "Font Family" input box type Fira Code , replacing any content. Tick the check box "Enables/Disables font ligatures" under "Font Ligatures" to enable the special ligatures.
In Word 2010 or newer for Windows, press Control-D to open the Font dialog box, and select the Advanced tab. Check the option to “Use Contextual Alternates,” then set Ligatures to “All,” and click OK.
In my case I downloaded Fira Code v2 without first uninstalling v1. And I don't think it will ever work with both versions installed. So in Windows, go to your Settings/Font Settings and search for Fira Code - there will be an uninstall button there.
After installing v2, (install instructions https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Installing) the variants you installed like Light, Regular, Medium,BoldandRetina` for example will be listed along with the version number.
Then I would definitely reboot your computer before trying to get Fira Code and font ligatures working in vscode. Also see vscode: update to stylistic sets using font ligatures with Fira Code for some gothchas with ligatures.
Then after changing the font face in vscode I would reload vscode too. These settings work for me:
"editor.fontFamily": "Fira Code",
"editor.fontLigatures":"'zero', 'ss02', 'ss03', 'ss04', 'ss05', 'calt'",
if you want the other stylistic sets that Fira Code offers. The calt on the end was necessary to make most of the rest work for some reason. See the SO question link just above for more on that.
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