This extension allows to display file and folder icons in dired mode and uses mimetype as the displayed logo and adheres to the icon-theme-spec file naming convention, which will help you to apply icon themes that you can download from the internet in your emacs.
From the code, I defined a minor mode of dired-mimeicon-mode that displays icons corresponding to the file types in a Dired buffer. The icons are displayed as overlays on top of the filenames. The icons are loaded from an icon theme located in a directory specified by dired-mimeicon-root-dir and dired-mimeicon-name. The icons are displayed as SVG images with a size of 26x26 pixels. The icon for a file is determined based on its MIME type using the mailcap library. If the MIME type is not recognized or an icon file is not found, a default icon is used.
The code defines several functions:
- dired-mimeicon-overlays-in: Returns a list of overlays in the specified region that have the dired-mimeicon-overlay property set.
- dired-mimeicon-clear-overlays: Removes all overlays with the dired-mimeicon-overlay property in the buffer.
- dired-mimeicon-insert-icon-to-overlay: Adds an icon overlay for a file at the specified position in the buffer.
- dired-mimeicon-refresh: Refreshes the icons in the buffer by clearing existing overlays and creating new ones for each file in the buffer.
- dired-mimeicon-refresh-advice: An advice function that calls dired-mimeicon-refresh after certain Dired functions are called.
- dired-mimeicon-enable: Enables the dired-mimeicon-mode minor mode by adding advice to Dired functions and calling dired-mimeicon-refresh.
- dired-mimeicon-disable: Disables the dired-mimeicon-mode minor mode by removing advice from Dired functions and clearing icon overlays.
- dired-mimeicon-mode: The dired-mimeicon-mode minor mode itself. When enabled, it calls dired-mimeicon-enable. When disabled, it calls dired-mimeicon-disable.
Installation
- Clone the repository to your emacs extension directory
- Add the following code to your ~/.emacs
(require 'dired-mimeicon)
(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'dired-mimeicon-mode)