vscode-codicons VS cmder

What this does is create a custom terminal profile for all Windows environments. It tells VS Code to use cmd.exe to open C:\cmder\vendor\init.bat, which starts up Cmder. You can set the icon to any Codicon.

I experienced something similar. After some reasearch, I found out that the prebuilt fonts from https://www.nerdfonts.com/ are not patched with all the latest codicons set. I ultimately ended up patching a font myself using font-patcher. If you want, my patched version of Fira Code is in my nvim config. I just migrated to 0.9 over the weekend and all icons in neo-tree, dap-ui and telescope are displaying properly.

I prefer using codicons for all signs in Neovim.

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.

• ⁠Font is MonoLisa (unfortunately a paid font) • ⁠I use codicons with nvim-cmp to get the nice icons in auto-completion. • ⁠In my terminal (iTerm-2 on macOS, WezTerm on Windows) I’ve increased the height of the lines to 140% so text is spaced further apart vertically.

Download and open in neovim https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-codicons/raw/main/dist/codicon.csv

Thanks! If you use the official VS Code codicons https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-codicons then this is the setup for you!

[Windows only]

I recently discovered Cmder:

https://cmder.app/

It's a portable console emulator and gives you the ability to "place your own executable files into the bin folder to be injected into your PATH" when it's run.

So far I've added:

jq

Assuming you already have Visual Studio Code installed, the first thing you'll want to do is Download Cmder. Extract the files to C:\cmder, or wherever you like.

I use cmder, it's great https://cmder.app/

The multiple supported shells remind me a little bit of the Windows cmder app, which I recall being pretty decent: https://cmder.app/

But the cross platform aspect is really nice, even if in my experience using different terminal apps per platform hasn't been too big of an issue.

Maybe except for MobaXTerm feeling better than most Linux tabbed/split terminal offerings due to its usability and support for sending input to multiple remote sessions at the same time, SSH integration etc.: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ (something like Remmina is on par with mRemoteNG, so nice but not quite there)

I've since found that dev workflows in Windows work pretty damn good now, actually. I hate PowerShell so I still don't use it, but I now use Nushell, Cmder, and Git-Bash as my shells within the native Windows terminal emulator and it's actually pretty damn good and very close to the Unix experience. I actually like the native Windows terminal more than Kitty and would switch to it on my Ubuntu machine and my work MacBook if it were available on these systems.

If you haven't tried Cmder yet you definitely should.

The Second was to directly avoid powershell & cmd altogether .. i also used cmder which gave me a feeling of Linux on windows