[SOLVED] Vim and powerline/vim-powerline

d4nt3 · 04-07-2013, 11:47 AM

I've been looking for a way to make vim work with powerline or vim-powerline but had no sucess.
Can anyone tell how make this work?

I almost did it installing vim-powerline( http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3881 ), and the powerline only appears when I open a help file within vim or other file, and when I close it, and vim gets one single opened file, powerline disappears.

Snark1994 · 04-08-2013, 06:41 AM

It looks like vim-powerline is deprecated - try using Lokaltog instead.

TobiSGD · 04-08-2013, 06:48 AM

I use powerline and have installed it using Pathogen (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2332).
In short, just do this:
1. Download pathogen.vim and put it into your ~/.vim/autoload directory.
2. Add the line

Code:

call pathogen#infect()

to your ~/.vimrc.
3. cd into ~/.vim/bundle (create it if it doesn't exist) and clone the Power-line github repo to it:

Code:

mkdir -p ~/.vim/bundle
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline.git

Works for me without any problem. As a nice side-effect, you now have Pathogen installed, which makes installing and managing your plugins really easy.

d4nt3 · 04-09-2013, 12:14 PM

thx for the answers.

My problema was the vimrc file. Powerline only appear on splited files, and look like crap.
Then I found some vim configurations about it.

Code:

set laststatus=2             "Always show the status bar and not on splited like before(this was the main problem)

"to fix the font and lot of strange characters and colors
set encoding=utf-8
set t_Co=256
set fillchars+=stl:\ ,stlnc:\