NERDTree needs to be called after vim-devicons about vim-devicons HOT 4 OPEN

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'

from vim-devicons.

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...

from vim-devicons.

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

from vim-devicons.

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.

from vim-devicons.