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The docs say that this will work best on a unix like system but doesn't say what that means or whether it will work on Windows. Has anyone tried this on Windows
by ax 15y ago
The docs say that this will work best on a unix like system but doesn't say what that means or whether it will work on Windows. Has anyone tried this on Windows? Does it work?
- cleverjake 15y agoyou should try it and let us know =]
- jamesgeck0 15y agoIt does work on Windows. Kinda. I'm using Consolas, and simple mode has a little question-mark-in-a-box where some dividers should be. Unicode mode is worse. Absolutely usable, though. It'll take more fiddling than it's worth to patch the font on Windows, so I plan on booting Ubuntu to do it later.
- ax 15y agoYeah I'm getting the same behavior. When you patch it, can you let me know?
- gaving 15y agoYeah, feel sorry for those that haven't discovered Consolas, such a better looking font on gvim anyway :) Seconding a upload request if someone patches it. Had a go on cygwin but you're needing a few dependencies by the looks of things.
- flaie 15y agoI'm trying to patch the Consolas font on Windows 7 using Cygwin, installing a bunch of dependencies for it. I will try to host it somewhere if I succeed and if no one did it until then :)
- flaie 15y agoI can't get it working on Windows. The Consolas patched font looks ugly and it does not show the fancy glyphs. Even using Menlo, Inconsolata or Mensch version posted here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3457785 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3457785 the glyphs does not show as on the screenshots on the vim-powerline readme. Sad :)
- jamesgeck0 15y agoThe hinting/subpixel-shading/whatever on Menlo and Mensch looks awful on Windows Vista, although they do provide the proper symbols. After patching Consola, I got the same awful look and no symbols, even with `let g:Powerline_symbols="fancy" set and c:\tmp\Powerline.cache deleted before running the first time. Edit 2: The symbols _did_ work on Menlo and Mensch yesterday. Today they do not, even with setting the font and g:Power_linesymbols in _vimrc and deleting the cache file and restarting the editor. There's something odd going on.
- flaie 15y agoAfter deleting the Powerline.cache file, I now have the '€' symbol and ',' instead of the arrows I think. Using the Inconsolata that can be found upper in the comments or Menlo does not help. It's still very usable and useful ;)
- Lokaltog 15y agoI've updated the plugin and it should work for Windows users now. Please open an issue on GitHub if you experience any problems on Windows.