I think we all look at this and think that it has crossed some line. But I also have to admit that I find myself lusting for one glyph or another, so I can't say where to draw it.
All of which means: amazing job.
Nerd-Fonts – Patched Fonts for Vim
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Re: Nerd-Fonts – Patched Fonts for Vim
#12It appears to be several popular programming fonts with a bunch of extra glyphs added. Does Vim require special font support, because I'm having a hard time figuring out the point of this. Is this for people who like to put icons into code comments?
> Does Vim require special font support Not really, that's the terminal emulator's job. If you want to use unicode fuckery for pointless hipster icons, you just need to have the glyphs in any installed font, and the terminal should substitute it when needed, no matter what your configured default font is (unless said font also provides the glyphs).
I get it, you don't like the pointless icons. Some do. Often when having a homogeneous naming structure with long filenames in NerdTree, it's nice to be able to say, "Oh this is the CSS file" without having to hit a capital A to expand the "drawer" to see what type of file it is. For the record... I don't own skinny jeans, and I'm probably far too old to be a hipster.
Re: Nerd-Fonts – Patched Fonts for Vim
#13A reminder to those writing open source READMEs: People coming to your project have probably never heard of it before. Tell us what this is and why, don't bury the lede.
Re: Nerd-Fonts – Patched Fonts for Vim
#14What advantage does this solution have over having a custom font configuration on Linux with fallback support for a font with unique unicode glyph support? In my case, I have Google's Noto font as my main font and have Font Awesome and Emoji One as my fallback fonts and it seems to cover everything.
What exactly do these patched fonts do or add?
Re: Nerd-Fonts – Patched Fonts for Vim
#15What advantage does this solution have over having a custom font configuration on Linux with fallback support for a font with unique unicode glyph support? In my case, I have Google's Noto font as my main font and have Font Awesome and Emoji One as my fallback fonts and it seems to cover everything. What exactly do these patched fonts do or add?
they work in more places
e.g. other operating systems
Re: Nerd-Fonts – Patched Fonts for Vim
#16What advantage does this solution have over having a custom font configuration on Linux with fallback support for a font with unique unicode glyph support? In my case, I have Google's Noto font as my main font and have Font Awesome and Emoji One as my fallback fonts and it seems to cover everything. What exactly do these patched fonts do or add?
they work in more places e.g. other operating systems
I'm genuinely curious, do you have any idea how other OSs handle fonts? Does OSX have something similar to Linux's X11's font configuration? What about Windows?
Re: Nerd-Fonts – Patched Fonts for Vim
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
they work in more places e.g. other operating systems
I'm genuinely curious, do you have any idea how other OSs handle fonts? Does OSX have something similar to Linux's X11's font configuration? What about Windows?
if I'm not mistaken, windows can handle fallback fonts, but it requires a fair bit of manual working to do
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd3...
so in most cases, it is unsupported, and in situations where it is supported, it is usually not exposed as an option
Re: Nerd-Fonts – Patched Fonts for Vim
#18No Misc-Fixed in the list? That's what first comes to mind when I think of a "nerd font":
Re: Nerd-Fonts – Patched Fonts for Vim
#19Getting a real brogrammer vibe from this
Says ps4fanboy?
Re: Nerd-Fonts – Patched Fonts for Vim
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Does Vim require special font support Not really, that's the terminal emulator's job. If you want to use unicode fuckery for pointless hipster icons, you just need to have the glyphs in any installed font, and the terminal should substitute it when needed, no matter what your configured default font is (unless said font also provides the glyphs).
I get it, you don't like the pointless icons. Some do. Often when having a homogeneous naming structure with long filenames in NerdTree, it's nice to be able to say, "Oh this is the CSS file" without having to hit a capital A to expand the "drawer" to see what type of file it is. For the record... I don't own skinny jeans, and I'm probably far too old to be a hipster.
I don't agree with you, but upvoted for not owning skinny jeans.