Material icon option possibility?

[niksingh710]

is it possible to have Material icons ?
if it is already possible then tell me how to do that?

[alex-courtis]

It looks like material icons are present by extension: https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons/blob/master/lua/nvim-web-devicons.lua#L958

Is there a material &filetype ?

[niksingh710]

no not a material filetype
i meant that nvim-web-devicons have specific set of icons.
is there any way to have the material icons as representation ?
like if there any override available ?
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=PKief.material-icon-theme

[gegoune]

There isn't any other way than manually overriding all icons. We could consider introducing theme or preset, but that would greatly increase maintenance cost and presets could easily get out of sync (where one preset contains an icon and others don't).

[niksingh710]

will it be possible to have a preset of required icons list that the community can maintain as seprate repo.
and then it can get override in setup config?.

e.g installing xyz/material-icon-for-nvimwebdev

then requiring the material icon and overriding it in here if having a option is possible?

[alex-courtis]

That is indeed an option. A separate plugin could setup nvim-web-devicons, passing it overridden icon sets.

[gegoune]

There already is https://github.com/yamatsum/nvim-nonicons.

[gipo355]

Please make this happen! been trying to hack material icons into neovim for a year now.
Up to now I'm manually overriding but it's quite messy and doesn't work flawlessly.

here is a link to an override list: (https://github.com/DaikyXendo/nvim-material-icon/blob/main/lua/nvim-material-icon.lua)

i've manually copied all the values and overriden them but not everything is working well.

[mskelton]

Hey folks, a while back I created a project called termicons which basically takes the icon set from the VS Code material icons extension and packages it as an icon font. Combined with termicons.nvim, you can use the exact set of vs code icons with nvim-web-devicons!

@alex-courtis Not sure if it's something you'd be interested in potentially including as an official configuration. If so, let me know.

[niksingh710]

@mskelton i tried termicons nvim it works perfectly.
i am using foot terminal in that i needed to add a line

font=JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono:size=10,termicons:size=10

this sets termicons as fallback. (if possible you can add it in readme)

[gegoune]

this sets termicons as fallback. (if possible you can add it in readme)

I don't think we want to nor have time and knowledge to maintain configurations for all existing terminal emulators out there. User maintained wiki is definitely an option though.

[mskelton]

@niksingh710 I agree with @gegoune that maintaining instructions for every single terminal is not something that is very maintainable.

[niksingh710]

A community maintained wiki is a nice option.

[alex-courtis]

A community maintained wiki is a nice option.

It's on the list