change only icon color

[zhengpd]

It would be nice if the icon can change only color with something like require"nvim-web-devicons".set_icon_color("rb", "#00ff00")

[alex-courtis]

Yes, that would be useful. It seems that you would need to get first, change then set.

[gegoune]

This should be achievable today with what Alex is suggesting. Something like:

require'nvim-web-devicons'.get_icons()['a']

or

require'nvim-web-devicons'.get_icons_by_filename()['webpack']

can be used to get icon's table which can be modified however you like and returned with https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons?tab=readme-ov-file#set-an-icon.

I haven't tested it. @zhengpd Would that be sufficient for your need?

@alex-courtis Or do we want to introduce API to retrieve single icon only?

[alex-courtis]

@alex-courtis Or do we want to introduce API to retrieve single icon only?

That sounds good; it's probably what should have been done instead of returning icon/higroup.

It'll need a different name; get_icon_full?

[gegoune]

We could unify get_icon_color() and get_icon() into new icon() returning table with all keys and deprecate old methods.

[alex-courtis]

We could unify get_icon_color() and get_icon() into new icon() returning table with all keys and deprecate old methods.

That'd do it.

Honestly, I want to rewrite the thing (unifying the API) as it's complex/fragile. Needs unit tests before attempting that...