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?
It 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.
I 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 the glyphs does not show as on the screenshots on the vim-powerline readme.
Sad :)
The 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.
After 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 ;)
I'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 :)
