[Powerline][2]is a statusline plugin for vim, zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome, bar, fish, lemonbar, pdb, rc, shell, tcsh, wm, i3 and Qtil. It provides statuslines to applications and make all applications more beautiful. It’s written in Python.
It’s Extensible and feature rich, written in Python which is very thin and doesn’t required any third-party dependencies other than a Python interpreter.
Stable and testable code base which is throughly tested and works fine with Python 2.6+ and Python 3.
Statuslines Originally created exclusively for vim, later the project has evolved to provide statuslines in many Linux applications such as zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome, i3 and Qtil.
Configuration and colorschemes written in JSON. It’s a standard and easy file format that allows user to configure supported applications with Powerline’s.
Fast and lightweight, with daemon support for even better performance.
#### Install pre requisites
Make sure your system should have below pre requisite packages. If no, install before proceeding powerline installation.
Tmux is one of the best terminal emulator that offers multiple window and statusline but is not looks good compare with powerline statusline. Add following line to your`.tmux.conf`file which will enable powerline to tmux by default. If you don’t found`.tmux.conf`file then create a new one.
Vim is one of the favourite text editor for admins. Enable powerline to add more power to vim by adding below lines into`.vmrc`file. Make a note, in vim 7.x you may not found the .vmrc file in system so don’t worry create a new one and add below lines that’s it.
```
# vi ~/.vmrc
set rtp+=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/powerline/bindings/vim/
