Support OpenType features, like discretionary ligatures and stylistic sets

[a-mg]

Many modern, well-made fonts include "OpenType features" that let you fine-tune typographic settings, like the appearance of 0 (slashed vs. dotted), or single/double story a/g. Like code ligatures, which MacVim already supports, these features can improve code legibility.

Is your feature request related something that is currently hard to do? Please describe.

Currently, it's not possible to enable OpenType features.

Also, not all fonts "provide" ligatures in the same way. Fira Code, for example, uses calt (contextual alternates), while Recursive uses the feature flag dlig. With Recursive, set macligatures doesn't turn on ligatures, suggesting that MacVim only supports calt. If OpenType features were supported, it would be possible to use all typography features a font provides, regardless of implementation.

Describe the solution you'd like

MacVim could provide an option, like macligatures, which takes a comma-separated list of OpenType features to enable. These features are four-letter flags, like dlig and ss01.

set macfontfeatures=dlig,ss01

Additional context

This may be a duplicate of #491, but I'm not sure of the difference between "language tags" as described there, and "OpenType features", which is how these settings are described in font documentation that I've seen.

• Examples of OpenType features: https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive#opentype-features
• Discussion of calt vs dlig, concluding that dlig fits the OpenType spec better: https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/issues/106

[ychin]

Probably requires some looking into, but we should support these features.