erikw

tmux-powerline

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erikw / tmux-powerline

tmux-powerline

⚡️ A tmux plugin giving you a hackable status bar consisting of dynamic & beautiful looking powerline segments, written purely in bash.

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⚡️ A tmux plugin giving you a hackable status bar consisting of dynamic & beautiful looking powerline segments, written purely in bash.

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Observed mentions: 2012-09-09 09:03:44 UTC to 2013-10-21 19:39:46 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
Sep 2012	2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Oct 2012	2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 2012	2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 2012	2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Feb 2013	2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Mar 2013	2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
Apr 2013	2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
May 2013	2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 2013	2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 2013	2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Aug 2013	2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Sep 2013	2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 2013	2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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mafro·Oct 21, 2013

Obligatory reference to the awesome Powerline[1]. If you don't want to use Python there's also tmux-powerline[2] and vim-airline[3]. I've been using these for the last couple of years. [1] https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline [2] https://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline [3] https://github.com/bling/vim-airline EDIT: typo, spacing and autocorrect :/

In Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

dcope·Aug 4, 2013

The working directory will be truncated with ellipses a specified length. The default is 40 but it, of course, can be changed. :) https://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline/blob/master/segments...

In Customizing Your Bash Prompt

sathish316·Apr 13, 2013

tmux has its own powerline: https://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline

In Workflow in tmux

srik·Mar 29, 2013

tmux status bars are customizable(no surprises there I guess) and the powerline is one of the nicer status bar arrangements - https://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline

In tmux 1.8 Released

influx·Mar 14, 2013

Looks like: https://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline See also: https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline and *-powerline for shells, etc.

In Idiomatic Python [video]

Watabou·Feb 24, 2013

I really like tmux: http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ I like to use it with powerline: https://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline

In Taking Command of the Terminal with GNU Screen

vially·Jan 7, 2013

Another option is tmux-powerline[1] [1] https://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline

In Favorite Unix Commands

yankcrime·Sep 9, 2012

Clever, but Powerline-themed context around your current shell environment seems more suited to implementation in something like tmux - see https://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline or http://www.drbunsen.org/text-triumvirate.html

In A Powerline-style prompt for Bash