#+TITLE: mode-icons
#+DATE: Monday, Dec 21 2015
#+STARTUP: content

Show icons instead of mode names in emacs.

[[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/screenshots/screenshot01.png]]

Some of the modes that have icons instead of names now:

| Modes      | icon                                                                     |
|------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Coffee     | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/coffee.png]] |
| CSS        | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/css.png]]    |
| Emacs-Lisp | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/emacs.png]]  |
| Haml       | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/haml.png]]   |
| HTML       | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/html.png]]   |
| JS         | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/js.png]]     |
| Lisp       | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/cl.png]]     |
| Org-mode   | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/org.png]]    |
| PHP        | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/php.png]]    |
| Python     | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/python.png]] |
| Ruby       | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/ruby.png]]   |
| SVG        | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/svg.png]]    |
| Sass       | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/sass.png]]   |
| Scheme     | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/scheme.png]] |
| Shell      | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/bash.png]]   |
| Slim       | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/slim.png]]   |
| YAML       | [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhoit/mode-icons/dump/icons/yaml.png]]   |

When looking at buffers with commands like ~ibuffer~, they display the
icons for the mode names as well. If you don't like this behavior you
can change ~mode-icons-change-mode-name~ to be nil:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(setq mode-icons-change-mode-name nil)
#+END_SRC

This only displays the icon in the plain emacs mode-line.

This may not work with enhanced mode-lines like ~poweline~ or
~smart-mode-line~, since they typically look at the ~mode-name~
variable.

Additionally, if the image icon was an ~xpm~ icon, then you can have
it changed to match your mode-line face.  In the example below, the
inactive mode-line shows the emacs and yasnippet icon changed to match
the inactive mode-line:

[[http://i.imgur.com/QOM9wYM.png]]

This is enabled by default, and can be disabled by:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(setq mode-icons-desaturate-inactive nil)
#+END_SRC

You can also change the icon to match the active mode line (disabled by default):

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(setq mode-icons-desaturate-active t)
#+END_SRC

* Requirements

  As of version 0.3.0 you can also use icons from some icon fonts,
  specifically:

  - [[http://fontawesome.io/][Font Awesome]]
  - [[https://octicons.github.com/][GitHub Octicons]]
  - [[http://fizzed.com/oss/font-mfizz][Font Mfizz]]
  - [[https://icomoon.io/#icons-icomoon][IcoMoon]]

  You need to have installed these on your system in order to use
  these fonts, mode-icons will not do this for you.

* Installation
** manually

   Place ~mode-icons.el~ somewhere in your =load-path= and copy the
   ~icons/~ directory there as well. Then =require= ~mode-icons~ in your
   [[http://gnu.org/software/emacs][Emacs]] init file.

* Usage

  Once installed you can add =(mode-icons-mode)= to your init file.