From the course: Learning Zsh
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Using Powerline themes
- [Instructor] Some of the themes that you'll see that look really cool are built on top of Powerline which involves the use of fonts patched to include special symbols. This is straying a bit far from the basics of Z shell, but many people who use Z shell really like to use these themes. And so I wanted to take a moment to walk you through the steps to get them working. If you just enable one of these Powerline themes and open a new shell, chances are your prompt will include a bunch of broken characters, and that can be a disappointing roadblock when you're getting things customized. I'll open up my zshrc file and switch my theme to one of these that use Powerline. As an example we'll use agnoster. I'll save the configuration file and open up a new terminal. Now in my prompt I see a whole bunch of junk. That's because this theme is using certain characters that don't exist in the font I'm currently using for my…
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