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Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

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Re: Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

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Post by gurraman »

Legion wrote: post #8
meta wrote: post #7

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.

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.

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

Re: Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

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Post by gurraman »

igorgue wrote: post #10

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 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).

Re: Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

#35

Post by StavrosK »

gurraman wrote: post #33
igorgue wrote: post #10

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 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).

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

Re: Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

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Post by StavrosK »

mnazim wrote: post #13
monological wrote: post #12

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

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.

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.

Re: Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

#37

Post by g3orge »

xhuang wrote: post #34
agscala wrote: post #14

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

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

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

Re: Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

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Post by gurraman »

StavrosK wrote: post #35
gurraman wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

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

For various definitions of "instant", I guess.

I move around a lot and I want my editor (and my shell, for that matter) to be ready the instant I hit enter.

Re: Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

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Post by jon6 »

mnazim wrote: post #13
monological wrote: post #12

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

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.

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
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