Icons written in Emacs (Mac or Linux)

Question

I would like for you to have a small icon next to each file, similar to what you see in the "list" or "detail" view in the graphical file browser. Someone sent a similar question, but the only answer was for Windows only; I want to be able to do this on Linux or Mac.

Answer 1

I’m pretty sure that the sad answer is no if you don’t do some kind of extensive hacking of the source code in Dired-mode. "

Answer 2

I think "bignose" is right, you cannot do it easily. But check out Dired + . It can colorize files by type so that you can get visual feedback on your bottled buffer.

Answer 3

I would also like to be able to do this. In general, I would like GNU Emacs to support the display of MS Windows icons (icon images). I would use them (optionally) in Icicles (in the *Completions* buffer) and Bookmark + , as well as in Dired + , to provide simple feedback on file types (and related Windows applications).

Alas, I was not able to interest Emacs Dev (yet). At least now we have image support (so you can, for example, view thumbnails in *Completions* ).

Answer 4

On Linux and MacOS, use dired-icon .

Disclaimer: I am the author of the extension.