lspkind.nvim

VS Code–style pictograms for Neovim completion items

lspkind.nvim adds a clear, consistent iconography layer to Neovim’s completion UI (LSP, snippets, paths, etc.). It improves scanability of completion menus, making intent and item type obvious at a glance.

^{nvim-compe, vim-vsnip, vim-vsnip-integ, jellybeans-nvim}

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Features

• Readable completion menus with VS Code–like pictograms
• Drop-in integration with nvim-cmp via lspkind.cmp_format
• Two presets out of the box: default (Nerd Fonts) and codicons
• Fully customizable symbol map per kind and per external source
• Zero heavy deps; tiny footprint and straightforward Lua API

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Requirements

• Neovim 0.7+

• A patched icon font:

  • Nerd Fonts for preset = 'default' → https://www.nerdfonts.com/
  • VS Code Codicons for preset = 'codicons' → https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-codicons

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Configuration

Option 1: vanilla Neovim LSP

Wherever you configure lsp put the following lua command:

-- setup() is also available as an alias
require('lspkind').init({
    -- defines how annotations are shown
    -- default: symbol
    -- options: 'text', 'text_symbol', 'symbol_text', 'symbol'
    mode = 'symbol_text',

    -- default symbol map
    -- can be either 'default' (requires nerd-fonts font) or
    -- 'codicons' for codicon preset (requires vscode-codicons font)
    --
    -- default: 'default'
    preset = 'codicons',

    -- override preset symbols
    --
    -- default: {}
    symbol_map = {
      Text = "󰉿",
      Method = "󰆧",
      Function = "󰊕",
      Constructor = "",
      Field = "󰜢",
      Variable = "󰀫",
      Class = "󰠱",
      Interface = "",
      Module = "",
      Property = "󰜢",
      Unit = "󰑭",
      Value = "󰎠",
      Enum = "",
      Keyword = "󰌋",
      Snippet = "",
      Color = "󰏘",
      File = "󰈙",
      Reference = "󰈇",
      Folder = "󰉋",
      EnumMember = "",
      Constant = "󰏿",
      Struct = "󰙅",
      Event = "",
      Operator = "󰆕",
      TypeParameter = "",
    },
})

Option 2: nvim-cmp

local lspkind = require('lspkind')
cmp.setup {
  formatting = {
    fields = { 'abbr', 'icon', 'kind', 'menu' },
    format = lspkind.cmp_format({
      maxwidth = {
        -- prevent the popup from showing more than provided characters (e.g 50 will not show more than 50 characters)
        -- can also be a function to dynamically calculate max width such as
        -- menu = function() return math.floor(0.45 * vim.o.columns) end,
        menu = 50, -- leading text (labelDetails)
        abbr = 50, -- actual suggestion item
      },
      ellipsis_char = '...', -- when popup menu exceed maxwidth, the truncated part would show ellipsis_char instead (must define maxwidth first)
      show_labelDetails = true, -- show labelDetails in menu. Disabled by default

      -- The function below will be called before any actual modifications from lspkind
      -- so that you can provide more controls on popup customization. (See [#30](https://github.com/onsails/lspkind-nvim/pull/30))
      before = function (entry, vim_item)
        -- ...
        return vim_item
      end
    })
  }
}

Option 3: blink.cmp

completion = {
  menu = {
    draw = {
      components = {
        kind_icon = {
          text = function(ctx)
            return require('lspkind').symbol_map[ctx.kind] or ''
          end,
        },
      },
    },
  },
}

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