Installed it earlier this week, and it is awesome.<p>I've uploaded patched versions of Menlo and Mensch here if you don't want to bother doing it yourself.<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/1595572" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/1595572</a>
I love how easy pathogen (<a href="https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen</a>) 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.
Looks like a nice replacement for status.vim <a href="https://github.com/dickeytk/status.vim" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dickeytk/status.vim</a>. Just needs syntastic support <a href="https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic</a>.
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.<p>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.<p>The Terminal in Lion supports 'xterm-256color'.
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.
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).<p>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>`.
Beautiful, thank you for this!<p>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.
Screenshot of how powerline looks like: <a href="https://github.com/sohooo/vimfiles" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sohooo/vimfiles</a><p>This is without patched fonts. You get nice symbols if you perform that additional step.
My patched version of all the variants of Ubuntu Mono <a href="https://github.com/scotu/ubuntu-mono-powerline/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/scotu/ubuntu-mono-powerline/</a>
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?
Inconsolata patched for Powerline here if anyone is interested: <a href="http://cl.ly/3G2414080H1I0c2v3B27" rel="nofollow">http://cl.ly/3G2414080H1I0c2v3B27</a>