Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline

by mnazim • 15 years ago

201 58 15 years ago

mutewinter2• 15 years ago

Looks like a nice replacement for status.vim https://github.com/dickeytk/status.vim. Just needs syntastic support https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic.

Oompa• 15 years ago

It has syntastic support https://img.skitch.com/20120112-t9qeth7nhrdxp25rekxxjqgk16.j...

mutewinter2• 15 years ago

Nice. Looks prettier than status.vim too.

g3orge2• 15 years ago

I've spend hours configuring my status line, but I'm definitely gonna install this. Very beautiful and functional.

meta• 15 years ago

I love how easy pathogen (https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen) makes installing vim plugins from github. I always struggled with it in the past (and mostly avoided it) but now it is as simple as git clone and done.

Legion2• 15 years ago

Vundle is even better than Pathogen IMO. It takes away the need to manage git submodules, in favor of just creating a text file that defines your plugins, Bundler style. Removing plugins from your setup is MUCH cleaner.

jhchabran• 15 years ago

I have to +1 this, I tend to use every piece that Tim Pope produces for their goodness, but Vundle truly rocks for exactly what you mentioned.

dguaraglia• 15 years ago

Also, Vundle has a nice interface to manage installation/removal of new plugins (BundleSearch, BundleInstall, BundleClean, etc.). Pathogen is more of a 'do it yourself' approach, while Vundle tries to be a complete suite a la Aptitude.

jvc262• 15 years ago

Cheers for the heads up - great plugin. Hadn't heard of Vundle before, but its handling of plugin installation, update and removal is really slick!

gurraman3• 15 years ago

Vundle installed. I agree that it is nicer than Pathogen, thanks for the tip.

oskarkv• 15 years ago

A couple of questions about Vundle.

What about plugins that are not in a git repo (but a hg repo)?

What if I don't want the lastest version of a plugin?

zoul• 15 years ago

It seems like the current Vundle version does not play well with .vimrc under version control. That’s why I like Pathogen more, since I can simply insert the bundles as Git submodules into .vim/bundle. (Submodule support for Vundle is already on the way, there are some pull requests on GitHub.)

chow• 15 years ago

Beautiful, thank you for this!

Would be nice if there it was bundled with sample patched fonts, so those wanting to try it could see if it's worth the trouble to patch a font.

igorgue• 15 years ago

I love this plugin, man I spent so much time configuring my colorscheme and my status line to know in which window I am currently on. I like that is written in full VimScript too.

gurraman3• 15 years ago

I too appreciate "native" plugins. I've even recompiled vim without support for Python, Ruby and Perl in an attempt to speed up startup (it starts a "great deal" faster, if I remember my tests correctly).

StavrosK2• 15 years ago

How much faster could it start? It's already instant.

jvc262• 15 years ago

Great piece of work! Thanks! Have added it to my Pathogen plugins already - wonder where we'd be without Pathogen?

funksta• 15 years ago

Agreed, this is a really great plugin. I love how I can see which mode (normal/insert/etc) I'm in by the statusbar color change. The color change is strong enough that I can see it in my peripheral vision, and don't ever have to take my eyes off of the code.

I'm so used to pathogen now that I almost forgot how much a mess installing vim plugins used to be. Really seems like there's been a plugin renaissance in the last couple of years.

monological2• 15 years ago

I'm a noob. Can someone please explain how to install this thing?

mnazim• 15 years ago

The way you would install any Vim plugin. Extract these files inside your ~/.vim directory such that.

    copy vim-poweline/autoload/* to ~/.vim/autoload/*
    copy vim-poweline/doc/* to ~/.vim/doc/*    
    copy vim-poweline/plugin/* to ~/.vim/plugin/*

and so on.

PS. Learn Pathogen or Vundle. It will be very well invested time.

monological2• 15 years ago

thank you

StavrosK2• 15 years ago

I just learnt Vundle. It took all of a minute to read the three lines of documentation, and now all my vim instances will always be in sync.

jon6• 15 years ago

If you don't want to install pathogen or vundle here is another simple way:

   ~/.vim $ git clone https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline.git powerline

Edit your ~/.vimrc and add

    set runtimepath=~/.vim/powerline,$VIMRUNTIME

agscala• 15 years ago

It even shows which git branch I'm in. How cool is that!

xhuang• 15 years ago

How did you do that? the doc said there is a $branch variable, how do you add it?

g3orge2• 15 years ago

I think it's activated by default. I didn't do anything and it appears next to the filename.

dhotson• 15 years ago

Pretty sure it's using the fugitive.vim git plugin.

gaving4• 15 years ago

Goodbye old friend https://github.com/gaving/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/plugin/s...

gaving4• 15 years ago

Real link: https://github.com/gaving/dotfiles/blob/19d95fa1ee0461dbe4d5...

Mind you on second thoughts, I really miss the mixed indentation warning.

Lokaltog3• 15 years ago

You cold fork the repo (or even better, create your own statusline theme) and add indentation warnings and the other stuff as a Powerline segment. ;)

qrush• 15 years ago

Installed it earlier this week, and it is awesome.

I've uploaded patched versions of Menlo and Mensch here if you don't want to bother doing it yourself.

https://gist.github.com/1595572

rahim• 15 years ago

Thanks for sharing these! As long as you're encoding fonts, any chance you could do Monaco?

nmk• 15 years ago

I would be interested in a patched version of Monaco as well.

parkerny• 15 years ago

Great, I'd been hoping that someone would patch Menlo, thanks!

ax2• 15 years ago

The docs say that this will work best on a unix like system but doesn't say what that means or whether it will work on Windows. Has anyone tried this on Windows? Does it work?

cleverjake• 15 years ago

you should try it and let us know =]

jamesgeck02• 15 years ago

It does work on Windows. Kinda. I'm using Consolas, and simple mode has a little question-mark-in-a-box where some dividers should be. Unicode mode is worse. Absolutely usable, though.

It'll take more fiddling than it's worth to patch the font on Windows, so I plan on booting Ubuntu to do it later.

ax2• 15 years ago

Yeah I'm getting the same behavior. When you patch it, can you let me know?

gaving4• 15 years ago

Yeah, feel sorry for those that haven't discovered Consolas, such a better looking font on gvim anyway :)

Seconding a upload request if someone patches it. Had a go on cygwin but you're needing a few dependencies by the looks of things.

Lokaltog3• 15 years ago

I've updated the plugin and it should work for Windows users now. Please open an issue on GitHub if you experience any problems on Windows.

alexyoung• 15 years ago

If you've tried this on Snow Leopard and are confused as to why it looks nothing like the screenshots, you might want to try a different terminal application.

Terminal in Snow Leopard doesn't support 256 colours, so iTerm2 should show vim-powerline closer to the screenshots. It's open source and works pretty well in my experience.

The Terminal in Lion supports 'xterm-256color'.

lynndylanhurley• 15 years ago

I've been using this all morning - it's really incredible.

nicksergeant• 15 years ago

Inconsolata patched for Powerline here if anyone is interested: http://cl.ly/3G2414080H1I0c2v3B27

morpher• 15 years ago

I've been using this for a few weeks, and really love it. It is definitely worth patching your vim font (although not very well documented).

You can use `:set guifont` in gvim to determine your font. Then, just run the included fontpatcher python script on the correct font to add the new symbols. Note that this script requires installing the fontforge python package (python-fontforge on ubuntu). Then tell gvim to use the patched font with `:set guifont=<fontname>`.

Lokaltog3• 15 years ago

That's good to know, I'll include it in the documentation.

sohooo• 15 years ago

Screenshot of how powerline looks like: https://github.com/sohooo/vimfiles

This is without patched fonts. You get nice symbols if you perform that additional step.

scotu• 15 years ago

My patched version of all the variants of Ubuntu Mono https://github.com/scotu/ubuntu-mono-powerline/

jvm• 15 years ago

Anybody have linux fonts patched? I can't deal with these OTFs.

Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

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