vim-powerline – Tarik Billa

How to install Powerline fonts on WSL?

December 9, 2023 by Tarik

I was installing the fonts in the Ubuntu system, but it is Windows that is rendering the characters from the terminal, so I should install the fonts on Windows (facepalm). I followed this blog post to install the Powerline fonts on Windows, and then I had to change the font in the settings of the … Read more

How can I setup my vim-airline or vim-powerline

April 8, 2023 by Tarik

You didn’t use a patched font! Patching means manually adding the six extra symbols to the font at specific places in UTF formatted fonts. If these symbols are not present, you get the ugly placeholder blocks, which you are getting. You can either patch by yourself using fontforge (not easy!) or you can simply download … Read more