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Updated Dummies Guide to Powerline fonts on Fedora, Ubuntu and Windows (markdown)

Ian Channing 2018-08-07 11:43:42 +02:00
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Dummies-Guide-to-Powerline-fonts-on-Fedora,-Ubuntu-and-Windows.md → Dummies-Guide-to-the-status-bar-symbols---Powerline-fonts-on-Fedora,-Ubuntu-and-Windows.md

@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ The first is figuring out what the hell are those strange but nice angle bracket
Then even if you do manage to get one installed they look uglier than you'd hope because the fonts don't fully work. Then even if you do manage to get one installed they look uglier than you'd hope because the fonts don't fully work.
So what we're doing is installing some custom fonts that have specific UTF-8 characters and then specifying those characters in the status bar.
## Configuring Vim ## Configuring Vim
This is opposite to the [official instructions][1] but I had this bit wrong at the end which made me question all the font installations. So I suggest you get this configured first and then if you get the fonts working it should magically appear. This is opposite to the [official instructions][1] but my `.vimrc` configuration following those instructions didn't work at the end which made me question all the font installations. So I suggest you get this configured first and then if you get the fonts working it should magically appear.
The final trick was forcing vim-airline to use the fonts it needs. In the [official documentation][1] it should just be adding `let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1` in your `.vimrc`. However I did this and no luck. There's more information in `:help airline-customization` and that gives you some simple config settings that you need, just in case. This was the final magic sauce that I needed. I don't know why this wasn't automatically created. This is also mentioned in this [Vi Stack Exchange answer][2]. The final trick was forcing vim-airline to use the fonts it needs. In the [official documentation][1] it should just be adding `let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1` in your `.vimrc`. However I did this and no luck. There's more information in `:help airline-customization` and that gives you some simple config settings that you need, just in case. This was the final magic sauce that I needed. I don't know why this wasn't automatically created. This is also mentioned in this [Vi Stack Exchange answer][2].
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let g:airline_symbols.maxlinenr = '' let g:airline_symbols.maxlinenr = ''
``` ```
## Kitchen sinking it on Fedora and Ubuntu ## Kitchen sinking the fonts on Fedora and Ubuntu
This is probably an overkill solution, but first you need to get it consistently working before you can simplify it. This is probably an overkill solution, but first you need to get it consistently working before you can simplify it.