Why vim-airline is not showing symbols properly?

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ashishjmeshram picture ashishjmeshram · Jun 11, 2015 · Viewed 12.5k times · Source

I am using vim-airline to show status line at the bottom in vim editor.

Below is my .vimrc.local file.

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and here is how my status line looks like.

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Why the symbols are not showing properly?

Answer

maggick picture maggick · Jun 11, 2015

Your font does not display all unicode characters but that is not a problem.

You need to install a patched font. Instructions can be found in the official powerline documentation. Prepatched fonts can be found in the powerline-fonts repository.

Otherwise you can change the separator by editing your vimrc, personally I have the following:

" the separator used on the left side
let g:airline_left_sep=''
" the separator used on the right side 
let g:airline_right_sep=''

Yes this is no separator. This render the following (with solarized colors):

airline without separator

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