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Overview
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**Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and
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prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython,
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Awesome, i3 and Qtile.**
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Features
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* **Extensible and feature rich, written in Python.** Powerline was
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completely rewritten in Python to get rid of as much vimscript as
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possible. This has allowed much better extensibility, leaner and better
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config files, and a structured, object-oriented codebase with no mandatory
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third-party dependencies other than a Python interpreter.
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* **Stable and testable code base.** Using Python has allowed unit testing
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of all the project code. The code is tested to work in Python 2.6+ and
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Python 3.
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* **Support for prompts and statuslines in many applications.** Originally
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created exclusively for vim statuslines, the project has evolved to
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provide statuslines in tmux and several WMs, and prompts for shells like
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bash/zsh and other applications. It’s simple to write renderers for any
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other applications that Powerline doesn’t yet support.
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* **Configuration and colorschemes written in JSON.** JSON is
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a standardized, simple and easy to use file format that allows for easy
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user configuration across all of Powerline’s supported applications.
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* **Fast and lightweight, with daemon support for even better performance.**
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Although the code base spans a couple of thousand lines of code with no
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goal of “less than X lines of code”, the main focus is on good performance
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and as little code as possible while still providing a rich set of
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features. The new daemon also ensures that only one Python instance is
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launched for prompts and statuslines, which provides excellent
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performance.
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*But I hate Python / I don’t need shell prompts / this is just too much
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hassle for me / what happened to the original vim-powerline project / …*
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You should check out some of the Powerline derivatives. The most lightweight
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and feature-rich alternative is currently Bailey Ling’s `vim-airline
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<https://github.com/bling/vim-airline>`_ project.
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Screenshots
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Vim statusline
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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**Mode-dependent highlighting**
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* .. image:: _static/img/pl-mode-normal.png
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:alt: Normal mode
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* .. image:: _static/img/pl-mode-insert.png
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:alt: Insert mode
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* .. image:: _static/img/pl-mode-visual.png
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:alt: Visual mode
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* .. image:: _static/img/pl-mode-replace.png
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:alt: Replace mode
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**Automatic truncation of segments in small windows**
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* .. image:: _static/img/pl-truncate1.png
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:alt: Truncation illustration
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* .. image:: _static/img/pl-truncate2.png
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:alt: Truncation illustration
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* .. image:: _static/img/pl-truncate3.png
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:alt: Truncation illustration
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