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Vim statusline

If installed using pip just add

python from powerline.vim import setup as powerline_setup
python powerline_setup()
python del powerline_setup

(replace python with python3 if appropriate) to your vimrc.

If you just cloned the repository add the following line to your vimrc, where {repository_root} is the absolute path to your Powerline installation directory:

set rtp+={repository_root}/powerline/bindings/vim

If you’re using pathogen and don’t want Powerline functionality in any other applications, simply add Powerline as a bundle and point the path above to the Powerline bundle directory, e.g. ~/.vim/bundle/powerline/powerline/bindings/vim.

With Vundle you may instead use

Bundle 'Lokaltog/powerline', {'rtp': 'powerline/bindings/vim/'}

(replace Bundle with NeoBundle for NeoBundle).

For vim-addon-manager it is even easier since you don’t need to write this big path or install anything by hand: powerline is installed and run just like any other plugin using

call vam#ActivateAddons(['powerline'])

Warning

Never install powerline with pathogen/VAM/Vundle/NeoBundle and with pip. If you want powerline functionality in vim and other applications use system-wide installation if your system has powerline package, pip-only or pip install --editable kind of installation performed on the repository installed by Vim plugin manager.

If you have installed powerline with pip and with some of Vim package managers do never report any errors to powerline bug tracker, especially errors occurring after updates.

Note

If you use supplied powerline.vim file to load powerline there are additional configuration variables available: g:powerline_pycmd and g:powerline_pyeval. First sets command used to load powerline: expected values are "py" and "py3". Second sets function used in statusline, expected values are "pyeval" and "py3eval".

If g:powerline_pycmd is set to the one of the expected values then g:powerline_pyeval will be set accordingly. If it is set to some other value then you must also set g:powerline_pyeval. Powerline will not check that Vim is compiled with Python support if you set g:powerline_pycmd to an unexpected value.

These values are to be used to specify the only Python that is to be loaded if you have both versions: Vim may disable loading one python version if other was already loaded. They should also be used if you have two python versions able to load simultaneously, but with powerline installed only for python-3 version.

Tmux statusline

Add the following lines to your .tmux.conf, where {repository_root} is the absolute path to your Powerline installation directory:

source "{repository_root}/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf"

Note

The availability of the powerline-config command is required for powerline support. You may specify location of this script via $POWERLINE_CONFIG_COMMAND environment variable.

Note

It is advised that you run powerline-daemon before adding the above line to tmux.conf. To do so add:

run-shell "powerline-daemon -q"

to .tmux.conf.

IPython prompt

For IPython<0.11 add the following lines to your .ipython/ipy_user_conf.py:

# top
from powerline.bindings.ipython.pre_0_11 import setup as powerline_setup

# main() function (assuming you launched ipython without configuration to
# create skeleton ipy_user_conf.py file):
powerline_setup()

For IPython>=0.11 add the following line to your ipython_config.py file in the profile you are using:

c.InteractiveShellApp.extensions = [
    'powerline.bindings.ipython.post_0_11'
]

IPython=0.11* is not supported and does not work. IPython<0.10 was not tested (not installable by pip).