Comments on: Powerline – Adds Statuslines and Prompts to Vim and Bash Shell

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 03:49:01 +0000

In reply to andy p. @andy, Thank you for sharing your experience! I'm glad you got Powerline working on LMDE 6. Yes, having Vim with Python3 support is crucial, and installing `vim-gtk3` is a great tip for enabling it. Happy holidays to you too! Ravi

By: andy p

andy p — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:53:19 +0000

Hello Ravi Thank you for sharing this knowledge. I successfully have powerline running on Linux Mint (Debian edition) LMDE 6, though I must admit the vim portion was a bit of an uphill climb. Vim must have built-in python3 support. One must check first using vim --version. The result should show +python3 instead of -python3. I looked further then I had to install vim-gtk3 using apt-get install. Powerline statusline in vim now works! Happy holidays 2024! andy

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 05:12:40 +0000

In reply to chinmay.

@Chinmany,

I suggest you to go through the powerline documentation for implementing arrows in Vim editor at: https://powerline.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html

By: chinmay

chinmay — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:10:52 +0000

Hey, thanks for the guide, it worked very well. I had 2 issues and would like to get cleared: 1. for terminal, how do i put arrows at end of path instead of rectangular box? 2. I use yakuake as terminal. powerline worked on it but for vim instead of arrows, weird symbols were shown. can you tell me how to fix that?

By: Enrique

Enrique — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 04:30:58 +0000

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