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Re: Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

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Post by flaie »

gaving wrote: post #49
jamesgeck0 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does work on Windows. Kinda. I'm using Consolas, and simple mode has a little question-mark-in-a-box where some dividers should be. Unicode mode is worse. Absolutely usable, though. It'll take more fiddling than it's worth to patch the font on Windows, so I plan on booting Ubuntu to do it later.

Yeah, feel sorry for those that haven't discovered Consolas, such a better looking font on gvim anyway :) Seconding a upload request if someone patches it. Had a go on cygwin but you're needing a few dependencies by the looks of things.

I'm trying to patch the Consolas font on Windows 7 using Cygwin, installing a bunch of dependencies for it. I will try to host it somewhere if I succeed and if no one did it until then :)

Re: Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

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Post by nmk »

rahim wrote: post #45
qrush wrote: post #20

Installed it earlier this week, and it is awesome. I've uploaded patched versions of Menlo and Mensch here if you don't want to bother doing it yourself. https://gist.github.com/1595572

Thanks for sharing these! As long as you're encoding fonts, any chance you could do Monaco?

I would be interested in a patched version of Monaco as well.

Re: Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

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Post by Lokaltog »

ax wrote: post #21

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?

I've updated the plugin and it should work for Windows users now. Please open an issue on GitHub if you experience any problems on Windows.

Re: Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

#54

Post by flaie »

gaving wrote: post #49
jamesgeck0 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does work on Windows. Kinda. I'm using Consolas, and simple mode has a little question-mark-in-a-box where some dividers should be. Unicode mode is worse. Absolutely usable, though. It'll take more fiddling than it's worth to patch the font on Windows, so I plan on booting Ubuntu to do it later.

Yeah, feel sorry for those that haven't discovered Consolas, such a better looking font on gvim anyway :) Seconding a upload request if someone patches it. Had a go on cygwin but you're needing a few dependencies by the looks of things.

I can't get it working on Windows. The Consolas patched font looks ugly and it does not show the fancy glyphs. Even using Menlo, Inconsolata or Mensch version posted here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3457785 the glyphs does not show as on the screenshots on the vim-powerline readme. Sad :)

Re: Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

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Post by Lokaltog »

gaving wrote: post #50
gaving wrote: post #16

Goodbye old friend https://github.com/gaving/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/plugin/s...

Real link: https://github.com/gaving/dotfiles/blob/19d95fa1ee0461dbe4d5... Mind you on second thoughts, I really miss the mixed indentation warning.

You cold fork the repo (or even better, create your own statusline theme) and add indentation warnings and the other stuff as a Powerline segment. ;)

Re: Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

flaie wrote: post #54
gaving wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, feel sorry for those that haven't discovered Consolas, such a better looking font on gvim anyway :) Seconding a upload request if someone patches it. Had a go on cygwin but you're needing a few dependencies by the looks of things.

I can't get it working on Windows. The Consolas patched font looks ugly and it does not show the fancy glyphs. Even using Menlo, Inconsolata or Mensch version posted here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3457785 the glyphs does not show as on the screenshots on the vim-powerline readme. Sad :)

The hinting/subpixel-shading/whatever on Menlo and Mensch looks awful on Windows Vista, although they do provide the proper symbols. After patching Consola, I got the same awful look and no symbols, even with `let g:Powerline_symbols="fancy" set and c:\tmp\Powerline.cache deleted before running the first time.

Edit 2: The symbols _did_ work on Menlo and Mensch yesterday. Today they do not, even with setting the font and g:Power_linesymbols in _vimrc and deleting the cache file and restarting the editor. There's something odd going on.

Re: Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

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Post by gaving »

Lokaltog wrote: post #55
gaving wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Real link: https://github.com/gaving/dotfiles/blob/19d95fa1ee0461dbe4d5... Mind you on second thoughts, I really miss the mixed indentation warning.

You cold fork the repo (or even better, create your own statusline theme) and add indentation warnings and the other stuff as a Powerline segment. ;)

Totally intend to if/when I get some time :)
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