drmikehenry/vimfiles — pull request #18 by jszakmeister (2012-12-27 15:51:12+00:00)
Title: Add Powerline.

Okay, the last one for now. :-) I've been using Powerline for a while now, and the more I thought about it, the more I think of it as being a key part of my configuration. I love the extra contextual information that it provides, and it works with tons of plugins out-of-the-box.

The only catch is that the color scheme may not be good with the nuvola color scheme we have as the default. I'm not sure where to take that, and color schemes seem so personal. I've been using the default color scheme with my vim color scheme (szakdark), and have been really happy. It does support themes, and has a few of them. You can select a different one with:

```vim
let g:Powerline_colorscheme = 'solarized256'
```

There is a bit of setup involved if you really want the full effect. It requires the use of a patched font. I included information on where to grab a patched version of Droid Sans Mono (from my etc repo). On a standard Linux distro, it's not hard to do. I'm not sure if we should take it a step further and actually package the font in the repo. It's only a couple hundred kilobytes, so it's not terrible.