Enabling icons for exa in warp

[pulanski]

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Josh#6406

Describe the solution you'd like?

One tool that I discovered in the last year or so has been exa (modern replacement for ls), and ever since landing upon it I've been in love. One of the primary features of exa that I appreciate is its ability to provide icons on display. As of writing this, I have tested warp's interoperability with exa on two machines and both weren't able to have icons displaying. I was wondering if this functionality could be added to the terminal.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Unable to display icons in exa.

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Warp Internal (ignore) - linear-label:efcea52d-0ab4-4a92-a41b-93c3e244f0a0

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[twyatt]

@pulanski you should be able to get icons to work w/ exa if you change to a font that contains the needed glyphs.

For example, I am using Hack Nerd Font (as found here) and icons are showing up for me:

brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts && brew install --cask font-hack-nerd-font

[pulanski]

I do have the fonts installed. They work fine in other terminals (i.e. alacritty, iTerm2, VSCode's integrated terminal). My issue however is that I can't even get the general icons to display in warp as seen in the picture below.

I was wondering if anyone else is having a similar issue. Here's an image showing the desired functionality working in VSCode's integrated terminal.

[twyatt]

My Warp (v0.2022.05.16.09.01.stable_01):

Configured with the following font settings:

exa --version

exa - list files on the command-line
v0.10.1 [+git]
https://the.exa.website/

[elviskahoro]

Thanks for opening. Gonna close this in favor of #789 as a fallback font that does support the glyphs should fix it

[Vatsalvinit-17]

How to import Hack nerd Font in warp, there is no options there

[twyatt]

How to import Hack nerd Font in warp, there is no options there

If you're using Homebrew:

brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts && brew install --cask font-hack-nerd-font