Library for displaying VSCode icons in Emacs.

This library displays beautiful SVG icons adopted from modern VSCode extensions such as Microsoft's vscode-icons, VSCode Icons Team's vscode-icons, and Material Theme's vscode-material-icon-theme.

It improves existing packages like all-the-icons.el, nerd-icons.el, and vscode-icon-emacs by providing various original, pretty, and high-quality icons using SVG format. The other packages all-the-icons.el and nerd-icons.el only display single color icons while vscode-icon-emacs only display PNG icons, whose quality might be affected when being resized.

Below are some useful APIs to get icons:

• vscode-icons-icon-for-file
• vscode-icons-icon-for-dir
• vscode-icons-icon-for-mode
• vscode-icons-icon-for-imenu
• vscode-icons-icon-for-buffer

Sample code to use the APIs to prepend the icon in front of a file name.

(defun prepend-file-icon (file-name)
  "Prepend an icon in front of a file name."
  (let* ((icon (if (file-directory-p file-name)
                   (or (vscode-icons-icon-for-dir file-name)
                       (vscode-icons-default-dir-icon))
                 (or (vscode-icons-icon-for-file file-name)
                     (vscode-icons-default-file-icon)))))
    ;; Return a new string which is prepended with the file icon.
    (concat (propertize " " 'display icon) " " file-name)))

Illustration of integrating vscode-icons into dired-mode:

This package is inspired by the following projects:

• all-the-icons.el: Emacs library to display icons using various icon fonts.
• nerd-icons.el: Emacs library to display icons using Nerd fonts.
• vscode-icon-emacs: Emacs library to display VSCode icons in PNG format.

Icons are downloaded from these projects:

• vscode-icons: VSCode extension to the official Microsoft's VSCode icons.
• vscode-icons: VSCode extension to display VSCode Icons Team's icons.
• vscode-material-icon-theme: VSCode extension to display Material Theme icons.
• vscode-great-icons: VSCode Great Icons theme.
• bunker-icons: VSCode Bunker Icons theme.
• breeze-icons: KDE Breeze icon theme.
• papirus-icon-theme: Papirus icon theme.