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What are Powerline glyphs?

• Freak_NL 9y ago
  Glyphs that are commonly used in status lines of terminal applications (editors, shell prompts) to delineate sections and to indicate the status of various things (e.g., the current character encoding, line-endings, git status, git branch name, etc.). These glyphs include a number geometric shapes and symbols. By using a font that supports them with the proper metrics, the status line looks sharp and flawless.
• cannam 9y ago
  I wondered that. This issue https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack/issues/1 https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack/issues/1 points to https://github.com/powerline/powerline https://github.com/powerline/powerline which appears to be some kind of status-line plugin thingy for Vim that uses certain glyphs for arrows and things. I haven't yet managed to find out which glyphs.
• lucideer 9y ago
  Custom glyphs used to render bold easy-to-distinguish vim status lines or shell prompt lines to make terminal scrollback more parsable
• alvarosevilla95 9y ago
  I'm not sure about the origin, but I believe they are some glyphs originally introduced for vim's powerline (https://github.com/powerline/powerline https://github.com/powerline/powerline you can see some pics there with the glyphs in use) that allow for cool looking status bars etc on the terminal.