Screenshot of how powerline looks like: https://github.com/sohooo/vimfiles https://github.com/sohooo/vimfiles This is without patched fonts. You get nice symbo

Screenshot of how powerline looks like: https://github.com/sohooo/vimfiles https://github.com/sohooo/vimfiles This is without patched fonts. You get nice symbols if you perform that additional step.