Which-Key rendering nerd-font icons when option set to false

[Joaco-1321]

Describe the bug

Which-Key showing nerd fonts regardless of the value of vim.g.have_nerd_font

To Reproduce

1. Install Neovim as shown in the Ubuntu install recipe
2. Install Kickstart
3. Press space

Desktop

• OS: Windows 11 with Ubuntu WSL
• Terminal: Windows Terminal

Neovim Version

NVIM v0.11.0-dev
Build type: RelWithDebInfo
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3

[Joaco-1321]

It seems that it also happens in Ubuntu, this is a fresh neovim install with only Kickstart

[laajila]

what worked for me :

1.) Download a Nerd Font

2.) Unzip and copy to ~/.fonts (create folder if it doesn't exist)

3.) Run the command fc-cache -fv to manually rebuild the font cache

4) change this line in init.lua

vim.g.have_nerd_font = true

[Joaco-1321]

what worked for me :

1.) Download a Nerd Font

2.) Unzip and copy to ~/.fonts (create folder if it doesn't exist)

3.) Run the command fc-cache -fv to manually rebuild the font cache

4) change this line in init.lua

vim.g.have_nerd_font = true

Sorry I should clarify, I'm not using a nerd font and dont want to use one, but still renders like I have one

[iton0]

I checked out the whichkey docs; try in your whichkey config opts.icons.mappings = vim.g.have_nerd_font. I will update #1068 to reference this issue.

[Joaco-1321]

thanks @iton0, that solved part of the problem, but there's still some characters that doesn't get rendered.

I'm using Windows Terminal with Cascadia Code as font.

[iton0]

Update the relevent key strings how you would like them to appear.

opts.icon.keys = {
      Up = " ",
      Down = " ",
      Left = " ",
      Right = " ",
      C = "󰘴 ",
      M = "󰘵 ",
      D = "󰘳 ",
      S = "󰘶 ",
      CR = "󰌑 ",
      Esc = "󱊷 ",
      ScrollWheelDown = "󱕐 ",
      ScrollWheelUp = "󱕑 ",
      NL = "󰌑 ",
      BS = "󰁮",
      Space = "󱁐 ",
      Tab = "󰌒 ",
      F1 = "󱊫",
      F2 = "󱊬",
      F3 = "󱊭",
      F4 = "󱊮",
      F5 = "󱊯",
      F6 = "󱊰",
      F7 = "󱊱",
      F8 = "󱊲",
      F9 = "󱊳",
      F10 = "󱊴",
      F11 = "󱊵",
      F12 = "󱊶",
    },

[Joaco-1321]

again, thanks a lot @iton0, I should've read the docs first. do you know why they changed it? I remember when space was just <space>. and also, do I have to manually set all of these or is there a way to disable it? I will look the docs just in case but please let me know if you have an answer.

should I close this issue?

[Joaco-1321]

also, keep up the good work man, I've seen you in various issues fixing things, your help it's very appreciated 😁

[iton0]

@Joaco-1321 thank you! Keep this issue open for now. From the docs it seems like you have to do this manually but if you find otherwise please put the solution in here.

Additionally, I would ask in the which-key discussion for more info about the icons.

[Joaco-1321]

thanks, this is what I've come up with if anyone that sees this issue is interested.

boring but simple.

[iton0]

could you actually put that in a code block?

[Joaco-1321]

oh sure, here it is.

require('which-key').setup {
  icons = {
    mappings = vim.g.have_nerd_font,
    keys = {
      Up = '<Up> ',
      Down = '<Down> ',
      Left = '<Left> ',
      Right = '<Right> ',
      C = '<C-…> ',
      M = '<M-…> ',
      D = '<D-…> ',
      S = '<S-…> ',
      CR = '<CR> ',
      Esc = '<Esc> ',
      ScrollWheelDown = '<ScrollWheelDown> ',
      ScrollWheelUp = '<ScrollWheelUp> ',
      NL = '<NL> ',
      BS = '<BS> ',
      Space = '<Space> ',
      Tab = '<Tab> ',
      F1 = '<F1>',
      F2 = '<F2>',
      F3 = '<F3>',
      F4 = '<F4>',
      F5 = '<F5>',
      F6 = '<F6>',
      F7 = '<F7>',
      F8 = '<F8>',
      F9 = '<F9>',
      F10 = '<F10>',
      F11 = '<F11>',
      F12 = '<F12>',
    },
  },
}