Powerline – Adds Powerful Statuslines and Prompts to Vim Editor and Bash Terminal

Powerline is a great statusline plugin for Vim editor, which is developed in Python and provides statuslines and prompts for many other applications such as bash, zsh, tmux and many more.

Add Power to Linux Terminal with Powerline Tool

Features

1. It is written in Python, which makes it extensible and feature rich.
2. Stable and testable code base, which works well with Python 2.6+ and Python 3.
3. It also supports prompts and statuslines in several Linux utilities and tools.
4. It has configurations and decorator colors developed using JSON.
5. Fast and lightweight, with daemon support, which provides even more better performance.

Powerline Screenshots

Powerline Vim Statuslines

In this article, I will show you how to install Powerline and Powerline fonts and how to use with Bash and Vim under RedHat and Debian based systems.

Step 1: Installing Generic Requirements for Powerline

Due to a naming conflict with some other unrelated projects, powerline program is available on PyPI (Python Package Index) under the package name as powerline-status.

To install packages from PyPI, we need a ‘pip‘ (package management tool for installing Python packages). So, let’s first install pip tool under our Linux systems.

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