Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] Getting Powerline (Tmux Status Bar) to Work with Mlterm 3.3.2

[Alexander S. <mai...@il...>]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 09:38:37PM +0900, Araki Ken wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
> 1) If you find "Fall back to xcore." message in ~/.mlterm/msg.log,
>   it is necessary to configure with --with-type-engines=cairo and
>   rebuild mlterm.

Ok.  I will check that out.

> 2) Mlterm doesn't automatically complement non-existing glyphs.
>    If you use PowerlineSymbols font for U+E000-E0FF, specify
>   U+E000-E0FF = PowerlineSymbols in ~/.mlterm/aafont.

Good to know.  Will experiment with this during the week.

>    If mlterm loads unexpected fonts, specify them in ~/.mlterm/aafont
>   explicitly. (See http://bitbucket.org/arakiken/mlterm/src/tip/etc/aafont)

Thanks for the pointer to that example.  The format was not clear, but this helps.

> 3) mlterm supports DRCS (Dynamically Redefined Character Set),
>   so https://github.com/saitoha/vim-powerline/tree/drcs which doesn't need
>   powerlinesymbols font may be useful for you.

Hmm.  So it only supports it so far in this branch or in the master branch?  I ask because I am using the compiled mlterm package from Arch Linux repos, and I did not build it myself.  Perhaps I will compile myself and give this ago from the branch mentioned.

>  Regards,

And regards to you.  Have watched mlterm from a far and was not until this year I started using it full time.  Thanks for the only bidi terminal on the market.  Seriously, RTLers are indebted to you.

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> Araki Ken
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