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Adds filetype glyphs (icons) to other plugins such as NERDTree, vim-airline, CtrlP, unite, lightline.vim, vimfiler, and flagship.

Table of Contents

• vim-webdevicons v0.5.1
  • Quick Setup (TL;DR)
  • Usage
  • Font Configuration
  • Font Installation
  • Screenshots
  • Features
  • Extra Configuration
    • character mappings
  • Installation
  • Lightline
  • Todo
  • FAQ / Troubleshooting
  • Contributing
  • Rationale
  • Inspiration and special thanks
  • License

Quick Setup (TL;DR)

1. Install the plugin per your usual method (» More details... «)
2. Download and install a patched font (or patch your own):

• nerd-fonts (» More details... «)

3. Set font (» More details... «)

• a. vim: Set your terminal emulator font
• b. gvim: Set guifont in your vimrc

Usage

After installing the patched font and setting the vim font just open or look at any of the supported plugins you have installed (NERDTree, airline, unite, lightline.vim, vimfiler, or flagship).

• NOTE: if you don't have guifont set and are not running gvim you will need to set the terminal font.

• NOTE: for support of these plugins: NERDTree, vim-airline, CtrlP, unite, vimfiler, flagship you must configure vim to load those plugins before vim-webdevicons loads.

• NOTE: for better nerdtree-git-plugin support, you should configure vim to load nerdtree-git-plugin before vim-webdevicons loads.

Font Configuration

• Encoding must be set to UTF-8 for the glyphs to show

  set encoding=utf8

• The ONLY other configuration needed should be setting the font vim uses to a patched font.

Already patched fonts and the font patcher script are provided at: nerd-fonts

It works without configuration ONLY when used with a patched font provided in the separate repository above. Install the font and add it to your vimrc or gvimrc:

Linux

set guifont=<FONT_NAME> <FONT_SIZE>

OS X and Windows

set guifont=<FONT_NAME>:h<FONT_SIZE>

e.g.

Linux

set guifont=Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline\ Plus\ Nerd\ File\ Types\ 11

OS X and Windows

set guifont=Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline\ Plus\ Nerd\ File\ Types:h11

Font Installation

You basically have to put any font you would like to use into the ~/.fonts folder. For example:

cd ~/.fonts && curl -fLo DroidSansMonoForPowerlinePlusNerdFileTypes.otf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/master/patched-fonts/DroidSansMono/Droid%20Sans%20Mono%20for%20Powerline%20Plus%20Nerd%20File%20Types.otf

You can find more fonts under my patched fonts repo.

Screenshots

NERDTree

vim-airline

section	preview
statusline
tabline
tabline
fileformats symbols

CtrlP

• Supports the original CtrlP plugin and CtrlP active fork
• Currently only MRU file mode supported

unite

• Currently only supports file, file_rec, and buffer

lightline.vim

vimfiler

flagship

• NOTE: flagship support is experimental because the API may be changing

nerdtree-git-plugin

• with g:WebDevIconsNerdTreeGitPluginForceVAlign on

• with g:WebDevIconsNerdTreeGitPluginForceVAlign off

Different patched fonts example

Various Terminal Emulators

• gnome terminal

• Urxvt terminal

Windows

Mac OS X

Thanks @RageZBla

Glyph set test file

Features

• show developer file type glyphs from a font in various vim plugins, currently supports:
  • NERDTree
  • vim-airline (statusline and tabline)
  • lightline.vim (statusline)
    • see: lightline for setup
• Adds a global config map of characters to file extensions (or entire filenames)
• customizable and extendable filetype detections
  • ability to override predefined dictionary variable
  • if you are unhappy with the default glyph used you can choose your own
• supports a range of file type extensions by default:
  • styl, scss, htm, html, css, less, md, json, js, rb, php, py, pyc, pyd, pyo, coffee, mustache, hbs, conf, ini, yml, jpg, jpeg, bmp, png, gif, ai, twig, cpp, c++, cc, cp, cxx, cpp, c, hs, lhs, lua, sh, diff, clj, dart, db, go, scala, sln, suo, xul, pl, pm, t
• supports full filename matches, by default:
  • gruntfile.coffee, gruntfile.js, gruntfile.ls, gulpfile.coffee, gulpfile.js, gulpfile.ls, dropbox
• font patcher (nerd-fonts)
  • requires: python2, python-fontforge package
  • example usage

    ./font-patcher unpatched-sample-fonts/Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ for\ Powerline.otf

Extra Configuration

• by default you should not NEED to configure anything to get the basics working

  • NOTE: You NEED to use one of the patched font provided or patch your own (nerd-fonts) unless you want to configure the filetype to glyph mappings yourself for your current font

• these options can be defined in your vimrc or gvimrc

• the following options are provided however for overriding

• enable/disable loading the plugin (default 1)

let g:webdevicons_enable = 1

• enable/disable adding the flags to NERDTree (default 1)

let g:webdevicons_enable_nerdtree = 1

• enable/disable adding the custom source to unite (default 1)

let g:webdevicons_enable_unite = 1

• enable/disable adding the column to vimfiler (default 1)

let g:webdevicons_enable_vimfiler = 1

• enable/disable adding to vim-airline's tabline (default 1)

let g:webdevicons_enable_airline_tabline = 1

• enable/disable adding to vim-airline's statusline (default 1)

let g:webdevicons_enable_airline_statusline = 1

• enable/disable ctrlp MRU file mode glyphs (default 1)

let g:webdevicons_enable_ctrlp = 1

• enable/disable adding to flagship's statusline (default 1)

let g:webdevicons_enable_flagship_statusline = 1

• turn on/off file node glyph decorations (not particularly useful)

let g:WebDevIconsUnicodeDecorateFileNodes = 1

• whether or not font is using double-width glyphs (default 1, set to 0 for single character width glyphs)
  • note: does not actually switch the font or try to use the correct font, just adds a space to account for a double width glyph, you have to set the correct double width glyph font in your terminal or guifont

let g:WebDevIconsUnicodeGlyphDoubleWidth = 1

• whether or not to show the nerdtree brackets around flags (default 1)

let g:webdevicons_conceal_nerdtree_brackets = 1

• the amount of space to use after the glyph character (default ' ')

let g:WebDevIconsNerdTreeAfterGlyphPadding = '  '

• Force extra padding in NERDTree so that the filetype icons line up vertically (when nerdtree-git-plugin is present) (default 1)

let g:WebDevIconsNerdTreeGitPluginForceVAlign = 1

Character Mappings

• ƛ is used as an example below, substitute for the glyph you actually want to use

• change the default character when no match found

let g:WebDevIconsUnicodeDecorateFileNodesDefaultSymbol = 'ƛ'

• enable folder/directory glyph flag (disabled by default with 0)

let g:WebDevIconsUnicodeDecorateFolderNodes = 1

• enable custom folder/directory glyph exact matching (enabled by default when g:WebDevIconsUnicodeDecorateFolderNodes is set to 1)

let WebDevIconsUnicodeDecorateFolderNodesExactMatches = 1

• change the default folder/directory glyph/icon

let g:WebDevIconsUnicodeDecorateFolderNodeDefaultSymbol = 'ƛ'

• change the default dictionary mappings for file extension matches

let g:WebDevIconsUnicodeDecorateFileNodesExtensionSymbols = {} " needed
let g:WebDevIconsUnicodeDecorateFileNodesExtensionSymbols['js'] = 'ƛ'

• change the default dictionary mappings for exact file node matches

let g:WebDevIconsUnicodeDecorateFileNodesExactSymbols = {} " needed
let g:WebDevIconsUnicodeDecorateFileNodesExactSymbols['MyReallyCoolFile.okay'] = 'ƛ'

• add or override individual additional filetypes

let g:WebDevIconsUnicodeDecorateFileNodesExtensionSymbols = {} " needed
let g:WebDevIconsUnicodeDecorateFileNodesExtensionSymbols['myext'] = 'ƛ'

Installation

• Sample Windows vimrc configuration 1
• Sample Linux vimrc configuration 1

This plugin follows the standard runtime path structure, and as such it can be installed with a variety of plugin managers:

• Pathogen

• git clone https://github.com/ryanoasis/vim-webdevicons ~/.vim/bundle/vim-webdevicons

• NeoBundle

• Add to vimrc:

  NeoBundle 'ryanoasis/vim-webdevicons'

• And install it:

  :so ~/.vimrc
  :NeoBundleInstall

• Vundle

• Add to vimrc:

  Plugin 'ryanoasis/vim-webdevicons'

• And install it:

  :so ~/.vimrc
  :PluginInstall`

• manual

• copy all of the files into your ~/.vim directory

Lightline

To add the appropriate icon to lightline, call the function WebDevIconsGetFileTypeSymbol() and/or WebDevIconsGetFileFormatSymbol() in your .vimrc. For example, you could set your sections to:

let g:lightline = {
      \ 'component_function': {
      \   'filetype': 'MyFiletype',
      \   'fileformat': 'MyFileformat',
      \ }
      \ }

function! MyFiletype()
  return winwidth(0) > 70 ? (strlen(&filetype) ? &filetype . ' ' . WebDevIconsGetFileTypeSymbol() : 'no ft') : ''
endfunction

function! MyFileformat()
  return winwidth(0) > 70 ? (&fileformat . ' ' . WebDevIconsGetFileFormatSymbol()) : ''
endfunction

API

" returns the font character that represents the icon
" parameters: a:1 (filename), a:2 (isDirectory)
" both parameters optional
" by default without parameters uses buffer name
WebDevIconsGetFileTypeSymbol(...)

" returns the font character that represents
" the file format as an icon (windows, linux, mac)
WebDevIconsGetFileFormatSymbol()

API Examples

• todo

Todo

• more filetypes to support
• make sure it works properly and does not conflict with nerdtree-git-plugin
• customize filetype icon colors
• more customization options in general
• more specific FAQ and Troubleshooting help

FAQ / Troubleshooting

• I don't want to use any of the fonts provided, I want to use font ABC

• try the font patcher: nerd-fonts

• see font configuration above for more details

• It isn't working

  • Are you using the patched font provided in the separate repo (nerd-fonts) or are you patching your own?

  • NOTE: if running vim and no font set it will default to the terminal font that is set

  • check what the vim/gvim font is set to, from ex mode:

    :set guifont?

  • check if the plugin is loaded (should give '1'), from ex mode:

    :echo loaded_webdevicons

  • check if the plugin is enabled (should give '1'), from ex mode:

    :echo g:webdevicons_enable

  • check if the plugin is enabled for NERDTree (should give '1'), from ex mode:

    • this should NOT need to be set under normal circumstances

    :echo g:webdevicons_enable_nerdtree

  • check if you are able to see the characters, from ex mode:

    :echo g:WebDevIconsUnicodeDecorateFileNodesDefaultSymbol

  • if all this looks correct you may try this to see if any files show flags

    • last resort, see if you can even set the default symbol and have it display anywhere (NERDTree, vim-airline's statusline, vim-airlines's tabline), from ex mode:

    :let g:WebDevIconsUnicodeDecorateFileNodesDefaultSymbol='x'

• How did you get color matching based on file type in nerdtree?

  • my current settings are from: preservim/nerdtree#201 (comment)

    " NERDTress File highlighting
    function! NERDTreeHighlightFile(extension, fg, bg, guifg, guibg)
     exec 'autocmd FileType nerdtree highlight ' . a:extension .' ctermbg='. a:bg .' ctermfg='. a:fg .' guibg='. a:guibg .' guifg='. a:guifg
     exec 'autocmd FileType nerdtree syn match ' . a:extension .' #^\s\+.*'. a:extension .'$#'
    endfunction
    
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('jade', 'green', 'none', 'green', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('ini', 'yellow', 'none', 'yellow', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('md', 'blue', 'none', '#3366FF', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('yml', 'yellow', 'none', 'yellow', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('config', 'yellow', 'none', 'yellow', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('conf', 'yellow', 'none', 'yellow', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('json', 'yellow', 'none', 'yellow', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('html', 'yellow', 'none', 'yellow', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('styl', 'cyan', 'none', 'cyan', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('css', 'cyan', 'none', 'cyan', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('coffee', 'Red', 'none', 'red', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('js', 'Red', 'none', '#ffa500', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('php', 'Magenta', 'none', '#ff00ff', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('ds_store', 'Gray', 'none', '#686868', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('gitconfig', 'Gray', 'none', '#686868', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('gitignore', 'Gray', 'none', '#686868', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('bashrc', 'Gray', 'none', '#686868', '#151515')
    call NERDTreeHighlightFile('bashprofile', 'Gray', 'none', '#686868', '#151515')

    Note: If the colors still are not highlighting, try invoking such as:

    autocmd VimEnter * call NERDTreeHighlightFile('jade', 'green', 'none', 'green', '#151515')
    

    per: ryanoasis#49 (comment)

• Issues after re-sourcing vimrc

  • Try adding this to the bottom of your vimrc

    if exists("g:loaded_webdevicons")
    	call webdevicons#refresh()
    endif

Contributing

Best ways to contribute

• Star it on GitHub - if you use it and like it please at least star it :)
• Promote
• Open issues/tickets
• Submit fixes and/or improvements with Pull Requests

Promotion

Like the project? Please support to ensure continued development going forward:

• Star this repo on GitHub
• Follow the repo on GitHub
• Vote for it on vim.org
• Follow me
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  • GitHub

Source code

Contributions and pull requests are welcome.

No real formal process has been setup - just stick to general good conventions for now.

Rationale

After seeing the awesome theme for Atom (seti-ui) and the awesome plugins work done for NERDTree and vim-airline and wanting something like this for Vim I decided to create my first plugin.

Inspiration and special thanks

• vim-airline
• nerdtree
• nerdtree-git-plugin
• seti-ui
• devicons by Theodore Vorillas
• benatespina development.svg.icons
• Steve Losh

Also thanks to the many contributors:

• contributors list

License

See LICENSE