[crazygringo]

I don’t understand at all.

Can someone explain why you’d want icons in the monospace font you use for development?

I thought those icons were mainly for building websites. But those are usually triggered with a CSS class, not embedded in source code.

What am I missing?

[fimdomeio]

you can use them on the terminal. there are projects like lsd[1] and vim-devicons[2] that use them.

[1] https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd [2] https://github.com/ryanoasis/vim-devicons

[ghostbrainalpha]

Watch this 30 second video and you will see why it is awesome to have icons in your terminal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NESi45Q2mHg

Apologies in advance if the music is not to your taste.

[chungy]

Video seemed to do the opposite effect to me. Information overload and clutter made me wonder what I was looking at. Plain old terminals without these special symbols convey a lot more meaning with a lot less.

[lgeorget]

Personally I find the Powerline set of icons for git very useful in my status line. Sometimes, I get a phone call in the middle of a git bisect or "rebase -i" and the corresponding little icon is a great reminder to run a git status when I get back to the tab.

[thanatropism]

In some languages like Hy you’re allowed to use any characters in names, and are encouraged to use one-letter names for so-called tag macros.

[frozenlettuce]

When you are navigating directories (using NERDtree in vim) it is useful to have icons beside each file