Set folder icon depending on it's name

[melsiir]

Is there any way to set icon for folder depending on it's name that will be very useful like in vs code

[kyazdani42]

this would be interesting indeed :)
But not feasible atm, i'll see when refactoring the renderer.

[kyazdani42]

just a side note: vscode renders svg which is not feasible in nvim-tree since a terminal renders unicode and not images.

[kraftwerk28]

@kyazdani42, nerdfont patch has various directory icons and lsd uses them. Though it is probably web-devicons task to resolve the icon depending on directory name.

[alex-courtis]

Larger issue #1508 should cover this one, with an icon applied to the path regex.

[siduck]

has anyone managed to get this work?

[alex-courtis]

This can be done, using a regex to apply:

• icon
• highlight

Pull Requests are always gratefully appreciated.

[yrodelo]

So there is already a way to implement it or not yet? I am a little bit confused with the different open issues about this same topic and their answers. I think that the mere fact of being able to change the color of the folder according to its regex would be more than enough to differentiate the purpose of specific folders.

[alex-courtis]

The highlighting and most of the renderer was recently rewritten: #2455

This funtionality should be easier to implement: implement a new Decorator for user highlights, say, DecoratorUser.

That new decorator could read some new options and apply them to icon and file names. It might be easier for the user to supply functions instead of using regexes.

See #1508 (comment)

[jugarpeupv]

@alex-courtis does it mean we can already do it? if we provide as a consumer a decorator function in the nvim-tree setup? could you provide a simple example to override the icon of a folder name?

[alex-courtis]

@alex-courtis does it mean we can already do it? if we provide as a consumer a decorator function in the nvim-tree setup? could you provide a simple example to override the icon of a folder name?

Sorry, it's not been built yet. We'll get to it...

[alex-courtis]

This functionality will be added via #2948

The proof of concept was successfully consumed by users. It's being built, along with file/folder icon setting.

I'll close this one as it's fully covered there.