a110605 / powerline-plugin

A beautiful plugin for tmux, vim and shell prompt. For more information visit https://github.com/powerline/powerline

Powerline

Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile. https://github.com/powerline/powerline

Shell Prompt

Vim Screenshot

Tmux status bar

Installation

1. Prequisitions

sudo apt-get install python-pip python git

2. Download and install powerline plugin

Ubuntu version greater than 14.04

# sudo apt-get install powerline

MacOS X

# git clone https://github.com/a110605/powerline-plugin
# cd powerline-plugin
# ./install.py

3. Modify .bash_profile

# vim ~/.bash_profile

Append the following code to .bash_profile

function powerline_shell() {
   export PS1="$(~/powerline-shell/powerline-shell.py $? 2> /dev/null)"
}
export PROMPT_COMMAND="powerline_shell; $PROMPT_COMMAND"

4. Set terminal font

# git clone https://github.com/a110605/powerline-font
# cd powerline-font
# ./install.py

5. Set tmux-powerline

$ git clone https://github.com/a110605/tmux-powerline.git

Now append your ~/.tmux.conf to use the scripts:

set-option -g status on
set-option -g status-interval 2
set-option -g status-justify "centre"
set-option -g status-left-length 60
set-option -g status-right-length 90
set-option -g status-left "#(~/path/to/tmux-powerline/powerline.sh left)"
set-option -g status-right "#(~/path/to/tmux-powerline/powerline.sh right)"

More detail install information, visit Powerline Official Documents and tmux-powerline

References

• 用Powerline美化你的Mac终端和Vim
• Powerline：漂亮的 Vim 狀態列與 Bash Shell 命令提示字串外掛
• 幫Mac OS X上的Terminal換上華麗的powerline命令列