vim powerline in windows 7

Question

I am trying to install VIM Powerline on window, I found a comment which supposed to fix how it looks in Windows, but encoding of the comment is broken by itself...

The link to the blog post.

I had the same problem on windows. As an alternative to editing “vim-powerline-develop\autoload\Powerline\Functions.vim”, you can also add this to your vimrc:

    let g:Powerline_mode_V=”V·LINE
    let g:Powerline_mode_cv=”V·BLOCK”
    let g:Powerline_mode_S=”S·LINE”
    let g:Powerline_mode_cs=”S·BLOCK”

I don't know how to type the cdot operator in my keyboard (sorry for the name, I guess I am too much into Latex ...). So, what am I supposed to do to make VIM behave under windows?

Answer 1

To get the middle dot, the easiest and pragmatic way would be just pasting it from the clipboard.

For direct text entry, you can enter by the character encoding's numerical value: <C-v>183, see :help i_CTRL-V_digit. On Windows, you often need to use <C-q> instead of <C-v>.

Vim also has a feature called digraphs for quick entry of special characters. The middle dot would be <C-k>.M.

For any of these to work, your text encoding must support the non-ASCII character. Best use a value of

:set encoding=utf-8

and ensure that your ~/.vimrc is UTF-8 encoded.