Prezto: Powerline prompt: Symbols broken

Created on 28 Jan 2016 · 10Comments · Source: sorin-ionescu/prezto

I have the Powerline Fonts installed, all the other Powerline themes work for me in the OS X Terminal and iTerm2.
But the "Powerline" prompt has broken symbols…

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basbebe

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i can confirm this too

ghost on 21 Feb 2016

You need to install patched fonts. Read the Powerline README.

sorin-ionescu on 1 Mar 2016

I installed the patched fonts.
All the other prompts using powerline fonts are working, only the powerline prompt isn't.

basbebe on 1 Mar 2016

I don't know.

sorin-ionescu on 1 Mar 2016

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Looks like Powerline changed their codepoints for their fonts at some point between 2012 and now, and the powerline prezto theme is pulling from https://github.com/davidjrice/prezto_powerline, which hasn't been updated since then. There's a PR https://github.com/davidjrice/prezto_powerline/pull/2 that updates these points... maybe it could be pulled into this main repo?

nomoon on 1 Apr 2016

Who is actually maintaining Powerline?

sorin-ionescu on 1 Apr 2016

I forked davidjrice/prezto_powerline to toolbear/prezto-powerline

fixed Powerline font code points
lose generic VCS status; gain detailed git status
leak fewer globals
base16 friendly colors
detect node and java projects (in addition to ruby)

Currently it depends on changes in my prezto fork that I need to clean up and disentangle from my other customizations before I can make a PR. In the meantime people are welcome to try it out if you're willing to run off my fork or cherry-pick the necessary prezto changes.

One modification I _really_ want to do before the PR is consolidate the parent directory walking logic that's repeated (and therefore done n times) for ruby-app-dir, node-app-dir, and java-app-dir.

toolbear on 1 May 2016

I came here for the same reason @nomoon described. Looks like @davidjrice is not maintaining his davidjrice/prezto_powerline for the last 4 years, and that is what prezto is referencing.