https://github.com/maartenstaa/file-web-devicons

Prepends filetype icons to paths read from stdin
https://github.com/maartenstaa/file-web-devicons

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Prepends filetype icons to paths read from stdin

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/maartenstaa/file-web-devicons
• Owner: MaartenStaa
• Created: 2023-07-29T21:38:48.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-02-13T09:00:14.000Z (9 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-21T22:43:14.096Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Rust
• Size: 478 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# file-web-devicons

Simple Rust binary that reads lines from `stdin`, and prepends icons as defined

in the excellent

[nvim-web-devicons](https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons).

Handles color codes as well, using the icon colors from the aforementioned

library. Intended to take in output from [fd](https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) or

[rg](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep), to

then be used as input for [fzf-lua](https://github.com/ibhagwan/fzf-lua) in

Neovim.

I found that, in large Git projects, `fzf-lua`'s default `files` provider would

have a delay of several seconds before files would show up, however running `fd`

or `fzf` directly would feel much snappier. I concluded (correctly) that this is

because of the extra processing `fzf-lua` is doing to, amongst other things,

prepend the file icon. By using a custom `fzf-lua` action that invokes `fd` and

pipes the results through this binary, you still get the file icons, but with

the snapiness of running `fd`/`fzf` directly. Same benefits for `rg` as well.

You could use this project in Neovim using `fzf-lua` as follows:

```lua

local fzf = require'fzf-lua'

local function fzf_files()

  fzf.fzf_exec('fd --type f --strip-cwd-prefix | /path/to/file-web-devicon', {

    actions = fzf.defaults.actions.files,

    fzf_opts = { ['--nth'] = 2, ['--delimiter'] = fzf.utils.nbsp },

    previewer = 'builtin',

  })

end

vim.keymap.set('n', '', fzf_files)

local function fzf_live_grep()

  fzf.fzf_live(

    'rg --column --line-number --no-heading --color=always --smart-case --  | /path/to/file-web-devicon', {

    actions = fzf.defaults.actions.files,

    prompt = 'Rg> ',

    fzf_opts = { ['--nth'] = 2, ['--delimiter'] = fzf.utils.nbsp },

    previewer = 'builtin',

  })

end

vim.keymap.set('n', '', fzf_live_grep)

```

_Note_: This project has been tested only on MacOS. I don't know whether it will

work on Windows, Linux, or e.g. with non-UTF8 path inputs.