NERDTree needs to be called after vim-devicons

[harriott]

Requirements

Required Info

• I have searched the issues for my issue and found nothing related and/or helpful
• I have read or at least glanced at the FAQ
• I have read or at least glanced at the Wiki
• VimDevIcons is the last loaded vim plugin?
• What version of vim are you using?
  • vim 8.2 patches 1-4106
• What font are you using?
  • UbuntuMono Nerd Font Mono 10 (but same issue with other Nerd Fonts)
• Are you using vim from the terminal or a GUI vim?
  • gVim, nvim, vim
• Are you using Mac, Linux or Windows?
  • Arch Linux

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my issue

I can only see icons if packadd nerdtree is after packadd vim-devicons (not before, as recommended).
I've checked with vim dotfiles stripped down to only those packages and the calls to them, nothing else.

[timsu92]

I'm fine on Vim 8.1 and loading NERDTree first.
I use vim-plug. Maybe you can try if that's a problem of your plugin manager or Vim?

Here's what in my .vimrc:

Plug 'preservim/nerdtree' | 
	\ Plug 'Xuyuanp/nerdtree-git-plugin' |
	\ Plug 'ryanoasis/vim-devicons'

[harriott]

vim 9.0 patches 1-354 here now, so tried again here the recommended loading order:

.vim/after/plugin/plugins.vim

packadd nerdtree
packadd vim-devicons

and NERDTree again doesn't find the vim-devicons...

[fourpastmidnight]

This is probably related to this issue for Vim's package system.

[harriott]

So I checked again, with no other packages,
scriptnames ends with calls only to NERD_tree.vim & webdevicons.vim:

- either your recommended order (and devicons are invisible in NERDtree):

...
 1: /etc/vimrc
 2: /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/archlinux.vim
 3: ~/.vimrc
...
43: ~/.vim/pack/packs-cp/opt/nerdtree/plugin/NERD_tree.vim
44: ~/.vim/pack/packs-cp/opt/nerdtree/autoload/nerdtree.vim
...
63: ~/.vim/pack/packs-cp/opt/vim-devicons/plugin/webdevicons.vim

- or my order (and devicons are visible in NERDtree):

...
43: ~/.vim/pack/packs-cp/opt/vim-devicons/plugin/webdevicons.vim
44: ~/.vim/pack/packs-cp/opt/nerdtree/plugin/NERD_tree.vim
45: ~/.vim/pack/packs-cp/opt/nerdtree/autoload/nerdtree.vim
...

Nothing odd in the loading orders, so I don't think it's related to Inconsistent loading order of packages and their parts #7056.