nerd-fonts VS nvim-tree.lua

Compare nerd-fonts vs nvim-tree.lua and see what are their differences.

nerd-fonts

Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more (by ryanoasis)

nvim-tree.lua

A file explorer tree for neovim written in lua (by nvim-tree)
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nerd-fonts

Posts with mentions or reviews of nerd-fonts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.
  • jokermanBestFont
    3 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 11 Dec 2023
    Use any nerd fonts
  • which Font do you use?
    16 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2023
    Meta suggestion - go to https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts and pick one you like that works for your use case.
    16 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2023
    SourceCodePro: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/SourceCodePro
  • Berkeley Mono Typeface
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2023
    It's a bit expensive, and I can understand if someone can't or doesn't want to spend money on it. I would recommend to check out the free fonts 'JetBains Mono' & 'Hack' to these people.

    Some people have already mentioned here that Berkeley Mono is not available as Nerd Font. I would like to briefly point out that Nerd Fonts provides a font patcher tool (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher).

  • JetBrains Mono Typeface
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023
    There are a lot of code fonts on HN today. Rather than make a new post I will talk about some of my favorite that are a little less common. None of these are free I don't think.

    Cartograph CF - The one I've been using for code for years. Very readable, almost "comic mono"-like choices of some of the lower case glyphs but in a good way. All the character is in the italic which you will either love or hate.

    Quadraat sans mono - The entire quadraat family is a collection of masterpieces imo, but are generally too distinctive to be appropriate for most public-facing work. But it's your computer so who cares. I use the mono sans one for my terminal. The lowercase f seems so out of place there but you learn to love it.

    Alegreya sans - Not a mono font, but it almost is so if you've ever flirted with proportional fonts for code this is a fun one to try. There is a lot of careful line width variation that gives a lot of the appearance and readability advantages of serifs but keeps most of the visual coherence of sans.

    I like all of these because they look feel more like normal fonts rather than code fonts. They have careful variation that adds character and improves readability for me. I've switched to an almost-no-color code theme that uses font weight instead, and the details like this become more important that way.

    And then only kind of related but if you want to use unusual fonts in your terminal but you have a complex prompt setup, install font forge and learn to use something like https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/font-pat... to patch in the extra characters. This can also solve your "I love this font but want a dotted zero" type problems as well. Small skill investment for a small return over a long period of time. You'll always be using fonts.

  • Compiler.nvim: Oficially released (beta)
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 19 Jun 2023
    It is FiraCode Nerd Font Mono:size=16. You can find it here. On arch linux you can just install the nerd-fonts and it's included there.
  • Need help: NvChad v2.0 doesn't display font icons correctly with CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 3 Jun 2023
  • Not sure what icon I'm missing here
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 1 Jun 2023
    I'm assuming you're using a Nerd Font already, since I see the Rust logo and folder icons in your terminal. However, it's possible that your particular font is based on Nerd Font 2.x and the newest version is 3.x. Maybe try scanning your Lua config with nerdfix to identify whether the diagnostics icons you have set (among others) are using outdated 2.x character codes. If they are, try replacing them in your config, and also try upgrading your terminal's Nerd Font compliant font to the latest version (NF's GitHub release page says 3.0.1 is the newest version). Hope this helps your troubleshooting efforts!
  • Configuração do Windows para desenvolvimento
    7 projects | dev.to | 26 May 2023
  • Is this Neovim?
    11 projects | /r/neovim | 23 May 2023
    You have to install a nerd fonts

nvim-tree.lua

Posts with mentions or reviews of nvim-tree.lua. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nerd-fonts and nvim-tree.lua you can also consider the following projects:

nerdtree - A tree explorer plugin for vim.

neo-tree.nvim - Neovim plugin to manage the file system and other tree like structures.

FiraCode - Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

Visual Studio Code - Public documentation for Visual Studio Code

powerline - Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.

chadtree - File manager for Neovim. Better than NERDTree.

telescope-file-browser.nvim - File Browser extension for telescope.nvim

bash-powerline - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script. See also https://github.com/riobard/zsh-powerline

Hack - A typeface designed for source code

vim-gitgutter - A Vim plugin which shows git diff markers in the sign column and stages/previews/undoes hunks and partial hunks.

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

coc-explorer - 📁 Explorer for coc.nvim