Getting Startify to work with nvim-web-devicons

[Rizhiy]

Hi, vim-devicons has function WebDevIconsGetFileTypeSymbol, which allows startify to use devicons using:

function! StartifyEntryFormat()
    return 'WebDevIconsGetFileTypeSymbol(absolute_path) ." ". entry_path'
endfunction

How can I accomplish the same thing with this plugin?

I know that there is luaeval and tried to do the following:

return luaeval("require('nvim-web-devicons').get_icon_by_filetype( absolute_path ) .. ' entry_path'")

but that doesn't seem to work.

I don't want to use vim-devicons for that since it doesn't support colours by default and carrying two plugins doing the same thing seems ugly.

[D00mch]

There is an answer on reddit:

Web Devicons wrapper in lua:

function _G.webDevIcons(path)
  local filename = vim.fn.fnamemodify(path, ':t')
  local extension = vim.fn.fnamemodify(path, ':e')
  return require'nvim-web-devicons'.get_icon(filename, extension, { default = true })
end

This is the vim function for startify

function! StartifyEntryFormat() abort
  return 'v:lua.webDevIcons(absolute_path) . " " . entry_path'
endfunction

[Rizhiy]

I've installed nerd-fonts already.
I use coc-explorer and icons are coloured there.
termguicolors are set as follows:

if exists('+termguicolors')
  set t_8f=^[[38;2;%lu;%lu;%lum        " set foreground color
  set t_8b=^[[48;2;%lu;%lu;%lum        " set background color
  set t_Co=256
  set termguicolors
endif

Do you know of any other possible issues?

Just to check: it is possible to have coloured icons in startify?

[alex-courtis]

Unfortunately I'm not familiar with startify.

Your fg/bg colours may be overriding fonts. What happens if you remove them?

You could rule out terminal issues by running the minimal nvim-tree config as per the bug report. Colours are functional with that setup.

[D00mch]

Actually, I also have this problem: not all the icons have color (compared to nvim-tree, bufferline, and lualine).

For example, vim icon is colorful in lualine

P.S.
Moon icon is fennel (.fnl);
I use the Neovide vim client, but everything is the same in terminal.
I don't override termguicolors.

[D00mch]

I eventually move to https://github.com/goolord/alpha-nvim for starting page and https://github.com/Shatur/neovim-session-manager for sessions. I thought I would miss startify, but I don't

[alex-courtis]

Nice, thanks for sharing.