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JetBrains IDE - how to disable fancy conditional operators that affect the display of != == >= and <=

I have seen some engineers add something to make JetBrains IDEs (such as IntelliJ, PhpStorm, GoLand, etc) replace conditional operators such as !=, ==, >= and <= with some fancy representation like ≠, ≥, ≤, etc

However in recent versions it seems that this may now be the default behavior.

I personally do not care for it and want to know how to disable it but didn't know what to search for.

Solution

  • After a bit of time searching I learned that this feature is called "Font Ligatures"

    So if you search for Ligatures in the settings of any JetBrains IDE (I did it in GoLand) you will find it only in a few places, I found it and disabled it in Editor > Reader Mode first and then the other locations already had it unchecked not sure if they unchecked when I unchecked the first one or if they where already in that state

    This change did NOT take effect in my already-open editor windows until closing GoLand and re-opening it. Once re-opened then my ==, >=, <=, != where all back the way I like them :)

    I am putting this here on StackOverflow attempting to use the keywords I originally searched for trying to solve this in hopes that it helps someone else.