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Powerline is a statusline and prompt managing plugin

Powerline is a utility plugin which allows you to create better-looking, more functional vim/tmux statuslines and terminal prompts. See the screenshots below for a demonstration of the plugin's capabilities:

Mode-dependent highlighting

Normal mode Insert mode Visual mode Replace mode

Automatic truncation of segments in small windows

All segments Removed branch segment Removed everything but mode, filename and line/column numbers

Project page: https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline

Old, deprecated project named vim-powerline: https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline/tree/develop

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How can I setup my vim-airline or vim-powerline

I am trying to install vim-powerline, new-powerline, or vim-airline on Windows 7 on a 64bit version of vim, but I cannot get them to work. In vim-powerline, I get the status line, but can't see the nice < delimiters. I installed the plugin via…
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How to install Powerline fonts on WSL?

I'm using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) with Oh My Zsh to pimp my bash, but I can't make the Ubuntu terminal render the Powerline fonts properly. Any idea on how to set up WSL to work with these fonts?
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Vim goes whack with tmux

NERDTree goes whack in tmux session as in the picture. The same problem exists when windows are split. But now i am using powerline This time the Vim status goes whack(in the picture see the middle portion of the status line) in tmux. What is…
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Powerline on Mac OS X not working as expected

as the image shows , after installing the powerline for vim, some symbols are not working. For searching google i thought there maybe problems with the patch fonts. But after trying i cannot solve this problem. Could someone help me? Environment:…
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How to disable powerline symbols?

I use powerline installed with pip install powerline-status. Is there a way to just disable fancy symbols, so I do not have to configure any font to make it work, whatever environment and segments I use?
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Powerline has No Highlight/Color

Powerline works perfectly in gvim, but any terminal emulator omits the color highlight, including konsole.
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DeprecationWarning when starting Vim with Powerline enabled since Python upgrade from 3.6.5 to 3.7.0

I was happily using Powerline for Vim for a while now until today Homebrew installed a Python upgrade from 3.6.5 to 3.7.0. Since then, Powerline stopped working properly in Vim. First, when starting Vim, there was an error saying that the powerline…
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Vim Powerline with Syntastic segment

How do I add a syntastic segment to the powerline footer for Vim? (the new powerline, not vim-powerline) Syntastic docs only say how to add it to the standard Vim footer and I couldn't find how to add it in the powerline docs.
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How to truncate long file path in vim-powerline statusline?

I would like to truncate my file path to ex: a/a/j/c/popularCategories.js.
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vim powerline + tmux not expanding to fill entire status line

I have vim and tmux set up. I'm trying to get vim-powerline to look like the first picture. I can achieve this if I have one instance of vim, then using :vsplit to achieve the following effect. On the other hand, if I were to use vertical splits…
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How to detect if powerline is installed?

I have powerline installed on some of my computers, but not on others. I'd like my .vimrc to detect if it is installed before trying to load/enable the powerline package so I can avoid the errors that are generated. How can I detect if powerline is…
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Powerline fonts not working with vim on archlinux

I get bad symbols in places $ pacman -Qqe | grep powerline powerline powerline-fonts powerline-vim $ pacman -Qqe | grep vim-airline vim-airline vim-airline-themes $ python --version …
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Powerline not work in vim

Ubuntu 16.04 installed sudo apt-get install powerline and added to .bashrc: # Powerline if [ -f /usr/share/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh ]; then source /usr/share/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh fi And added in ~/.vimrc the: "…
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Can I use powerline without patched fonts?

As part of work, I frequently remote login to my workstation from a different laptop every week or so. Powerline works perfectly with the patched fonts on the workstation itself, but it looks and works horrible if I don't have the patched fonts. The…
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tmux shows configurations on start

TMUX shows configuration on start: set option: status-fg -> colour231 set option: status-bg -> colour234 set option: window-status-fg -> colour249 set option: window-status-activity-attr -> none set option: window-status-bell-attr -> none set…
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