[Request] icons for Emacs, elisp and orgmode

[twlz0ne]

🎯 Subject of the issue

It will be great for Emacs user.

• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs_Lisp
• https://orgmode.org

Some icons:

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EmacsIcon.svg
• https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsIcons

[nogweii]

Do you know of a font that already includes these?

[twlz0ne]

I know https://github.com/file-icons/source

Maybe Emacs & elisp could share one icon, I see all-the-icons did this:

https://github.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el/blob/52d1f2d36468146c93aaf11399f581401a233306/data/data-fileicons.el#L135-L136

[06kellyjac]

Adding file-icons to nerd-fonts would also fix issue #351 & help me out with a couple icons I need like: yaml, toml, terraform, vagrant

[dylanjm]

I'm dying to have this added. I can't quite seem to get the font-patcher script to work so I can simply have an emacs icon for all my .el files. File-icons is the way to go.

[seagle0128]

@dylanjm FYI. file-icons are compiled into https://github.com/sebastiencs/icons-in-terminal with some fontconfig scripts.

[ghost]

Any news on this issue? 🤔

[seagle0128]

ping kindly...

[Finii]

I looked a bit into file-icons.

They have a font that we could probably ingest.
That font has not-changing codepoints per icon (:+1:).

But ... the icons are not (all) in a contiguous area:
There is a big block from e700 - ebb7, but about 100 in the range below (like on 'a' 😒) and 100 above, for example in the 1f000 pane, but extremely scattered.

If WE want to incorporate them, and at stable codepoints, we need to come up with our own, packed mapping. Which is possible, but do we want that? (And then we could work with the svn directly anyhow.)

[Finii]

@seagle0128

file-icons are compiled into https://github.com/sebastiencs/icons-in-terminal with some fontconfig scripts.

Well, as often the case the codepoints there are not stable (see here bottom of paragraph). Of course it IS possible to maintain stable codepoints with fontconfig if one chooses to do it. Whatever, they choose not to. And I guess noone wants icons which move around.

I always try to convince people for a stable codepoint policy. For example (with fontcustom) here lukas-w/font-logos#75.

[seagle0128]

@Finii Thank you for the detailed explanations! So how about simple icons which mentioned in #818 ? Or, just add the emacs icon listed by @twlz0ne above?

[Finii]

@seagle0128 The simple icons are even more icons. Adding just some hand selected glyphs would also be possible (and easy), but then ... maybe everyone comes up with a symbol or another - not sure that is a way we want to go. Nerd Font is an aggregator and that is not really font aggregating.

I think decisions on this (adding new sets, codepoints to use) is beyond my field of work. I can do technical stuff here, and even implement new icon sets etc pp; but the if and where - I feel that belongs solely to @ryanoasis.

I will add this to the appropriate discussion, and then we need to see

[Finii]

I will add this to the appropriate discussion, and then we need to see

Oh, I noticed while editing #716 this is now a duplicate of #615

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