nerd-icons.el - A Library for Nerd Font icons

Nerd-icons.el is a library for easily using Nerd Font icons inside Emacs, an alternative to all-the-icons.

It works on both GUI and terminal! You only need a Nerd Font installed on your system.

It is inspired by all-the-icons, icons-in-terminal, vim-devicons, and nvim-web-devicons.

in GUI:

in terminal:

Installing Fonts

Please go to Nerd Fonts website and get a Nerd font. After installing the font on your machine, you need to set nerd-icons-font-family to match its font name so that the font can be properly used under GUI. If you want Nerd Fonts to work under a terminal, please change your terminal’s font to a Nerd font.

If the Nerd Font you installed does not display correctly (e.g. appear cut off), it is recommended to use Symbols Nerd Fonts Mono (Symbols Nerd Font). You can use M-x nerd-icons-install-fonts to install Symbols Nerd Fonts Mono for you. Note that for Windows you’ll need to manually install the font after you used this function.

Usage

nerd-icons is on Melpa. You can install it with built-in M-x package-install

(require 'nerd-icons)

or using use-package

(use-package nerd-icons
  ;; :custom
  ;; The Nerd Font you want to use in GUI
  ;; "Symbols Nerd Font Mono" is the default and is recommended
  ;; but you can use any other Nerd Font if you want
  ;; (nerd-icons-font-family "Symbols Nerd Font Mono")
  )

insert icons

use icon based on category
- nerd-icons-icon-for-dir
- nerd-icons-icon-for-file
- nerd-icons-icon-for-extension
- nerd-icons-icon-for-mode
- nerd-icons-icon-for-url
- nerd-icons-icon-for-buffer
example:
```
(insert (nerd-icons-icon-for-file "init.el"))
;; Inserts an icon for Emacs Lisp
    
```
use icon directly
- nerd-icons-ipsicon
- nerd-icons-octicon
- nerd-icons-pomicon
- nerd-icons-powerline
- nerd-icons-faicon
- nerd-icons-wicon
- nerd-icons-sucicon
- nerd-icons-devicon
- nerd-icons-codicon
- nerd-icons-flicon
- nerd-icons-mdicon
example:
```
(insert (nerd-icons-faicon "nf-fa-gitlab"))
;; Inserts a Gitlab icon
    
```
insert icon interactively (M-x functions)
- nerd-icons-insert
- nerd-icons-insert-ipsicon
- nerd-icons-insert-octicon
- nerd-icons-insert-pomicon
- nerd-icons-insert-powerline
- nerd-icons-insert-faicon
- nerd-icons-insert-wicon
- nerd-icons-insert-sucicon
- nerd-icons-insert-devicon
- nerd-icons-insert-codicon
- nerd-icons-insert-flicon
- nerd-icons-insert-mdicon

Glyph Sets

Glyph Set	prefix	Point Range	insert function
Seti-UI + Custom	`nf-seti-`, `nf-custom-`	`e5fa` - `e631`	`nerd-icons-sucicon`
Devicons	`nf-dev-`	`e700` - `e7c5`	`nerd-icons-devicon`
Font Awesome	`nf-fa-`	`f000` - `f2e0`	`nerd-icons-faicon`
Font Awesome Extension	`nf-fae-`	`e200` - `e2a9`	`nerd-icons-faicon`
Material Design Icons	`nf-md-`	`f500` - `fd46`	`nerd-icons-mdicon`
Weather	`nf-weather-`	`e300` - `e3eb`	`nerd-icons-wicon`
Octicons	`nf-oct-`	`f400` - `f4a9`, `2665`, `26A1`	`nerd-icons-octicon`
Powerline Symbols	`nf-pl-`	`e0a0` - `e0a2`, `e0b0` - `e0b3`	`nerd-icons-powerline`
Powerline Extra Symbols	`nf-ple-`	`e0a3`, `e0b4` - `e0c8`, `e0ca`, `e0cc` - `e0d4`	`nerd-icons-powerline`
IEC Power Symbols	`nf-iec-`	`23fb` - `23fe`, `2b58`	`nerd-icons-ipsicon`
Font Logos	`nf-linux-`	`f300` - `f32d`	`nerd-icons-flicon`
Pomicons	`nf-pom-`	`e000` - `e00a`	`nerd-icons-pomicon`
Codicons	`nf-cod-`	`ea60` - `ebeb`	`nerd-icons-codicon`

Please check Nerd Fonts Glyph Sets and Code Points for more information.

Related Packages

use nerd-icons with dirvish

sample configuration:

(use-package dirvish
  :init
  (dirvish-override-dired-mode)
  :config
  (setq dirvish-mode-line-format
        '(:left (sort symlink) :right (omit yank index)))
  (setq dirvish-mode-line-height 10)
  (setq dirvish-attributes
        '(nerd-icons file-time file-size collapse subtree-state vc-state git-msg))
  (setq dirvish-subtree-state-style 'nerd)
  (setq delete-by-moving-to-trash t)
  (setq dirvish-path-separators (list
                                 (format "  %s " (nerd-icons-codicon "nf-cod-home"))
                                 (format "  %s " (nerd-icons-codicon "nf-cod-root_folder"))
                                 (format " %s " (nerd-icons-faicon "nf-fa-angle_right"))))
  (setq dired-listing-switches
        "-l --almost-all --human-readable --group-directories-first --no-group")
  (dirvish-peek-mode) ; Preview files in minibuffer
  (dirvish-side-follow-mode) ; similar to `treemacs-follow-mode'
)

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