Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides status lines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile. The following screenshot by Github shows how Powerline can be used to display information in a much more appealing and easy-to-understand format:
Using Powerline, terminal and supported applications look amazing. Color and line characters make information pop. However, Powerline is not supported in all terminals out-of-box. You need to install special fonts designed for Powerline.
Although Powerline is a relatively new technology, we made an effort to support Powerline out-of-box without needing to install a special font pack. With Xshell, the Powerline status bar looks like this:
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