magit-file-icons.el

Display icons for filenames in buffers!

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Installation

You can install this package from MELPA.

For example, with use-package:

(use-package magit-file-icons
  :ensure t
  :after magit
  :init
  (magit-file-icons-mode 1)
  :custom
  ;; These are the default values:
  (magit-file-icons-enable-diff-file-section-icons t)
  (magit-file-icons-enable-untracked-icons t)
  (magit-file-icons-enable-diffstat-icons t))

If you are using some other method to install, you will need to ensure the following dependencies:

• el-patch
• nerd-icons
• magit

Nix

Alternatively, you can use Nix. This repository is a flake and outputs the following packages (versions omitted):

└───packages
    ├───aarch64-darwin
    │   ├───default: package 'emacs-magit-file-icons-vX.X.X'
    │   └───magit-file-icons: package 'emacs-magit-file-icons-vX.X.X'
    ├───aarch64-linux
    │   ├───default: package 'emacs-magit-file-icons-vX.X.X'
    │   └───magit-file-icons: package 'emacs-magit-file-icons-vX.X.X'
    ├───x86_64-darwin
    │   ├───default: package 'emacs-magit-file-icons-vX.X.X'
    │   └───magit-file-icons: package 'emacs-magit-file-icons-vX.X.X'
    └───x86_64-linux
        ├───default: package 'emacs-magit-file-icons-vX.X.X'
        └───magit-file-icons: package 'emacs-magit-file-icons-vX.X.X'

A minimal flake for creating an Emacs with the magit-file-icons package could look like this:

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";

    magit-file-icons.url = "github:gekoke/magit-file-icons";
    magit-file-icons.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
  };

  outputs =
    inputs:
    let
      pkgs = import inputs.nixpkgs { system = "x86_64-linux"; };
    in
    {
      packages."x86_64-linux".default = pkgs.emacsWithPackages (p: [
        inputs.magit-file-icons.packages."x86_64-linux".default
      ]);
    };
}

Commentary

This package uses nerd-icons.el to render icons. Currently, this is the only supported icon backend.

The author is not opposed to adding additional icon backends — such as all-the-icons.el or vscode-icons-emacs — in the future.