Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Re: What did I do?

Phil Dobbin schrieb am 18.01.2012 um 22:50 (+0000):
> On 18/1/12 16:52, "Eric Weir" <eeweir@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > >On Jan 17, 2012, at 4:19 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> >>
> >> The plugin Powerline <https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline> is
> >> invaluable for identifying which mode you're in along with being
> >> able to tell easily if a file's been modified & plenty of other
> >> Good Stuff.

My status bar showed the same info. But Powerline looks much nicer!

> > A little concerned at the requirement of use of a "fontpatcher and
> > "patched font."

The font patching is optional. Guess it's about the funky chars (FT and
LN) you can see on the screenshots on the Powerline homepage at Github.
Without that font patch, Powerline simply substitutes FT and LN:

i mutt-Dago-1001-4736-2546 + unix utf-8 │ FT mail 70% LN 19:1

> As for the font, I've installed Powerline on OS X & Debian & have had
> no ill effects from it on either. I used pathogen to install all three
> times & it created the relevant folders for the font & all that was
> necessary so thumbs up from me.

Just discovered Pathogen and the existence of Vim script managers. What
an improvement over just unzipping into ~/.vim!
--
Michael Ludwig

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