nvim VS neovim-codicons

Compare nvim vs neovim-codicons and see what are their differences.

nvim

My neovim config (by ChristianChiarulli)

neovim-codicons

The icon font for Visual Studio Code (by ChristianChiarulli)
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nvim neovim-codicons
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7.6 0.0
about 1 month ago over 1 year ago
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nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-10.

neovim-codicons

Posts with mentions or reviews of neovim-codicons. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-05.
  • Vim-dap-ui icons trouble
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Jan 2023
    The default icons use codicons It's recommended to use this fork which fixes alignment issues for the terminal. If your terminal doesn't support font fallback and you need to have icons included in font you use you can patch it via Font Patcher. Simple step by step guide here.
  • Codicons shifted down a bit
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 31 Jan 2022
    You can find the codicons.ttf here: https://github.com/ChristianChiarulli/neovim-codicons/tree/main/dist

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nvim and neovim-codicons you can also consider the following projects:

darkplus.nvim

vscode-codicons - The icon font for Visual Studio Code

codi.vim - :notebook_with_decorative_cover: The interactive scratchpad for hackers.

telescope-terraform.nvim - Integration with the terraform CLI

wezterm - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

vim-orbital - Dark blue base16 theme for 256-color terminals

ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

nb - CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'