Powerline bash install tutorial?

[Gene Crucean]

Would be nice to have some docs in the readme... but having said that, is there a tutorial on using powerline with bash?

"Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome, i3 and Qtile."

[Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov]

Installation for bash is in installation documentation on readthedocs.
Putting everything from there to the README will make it very bloated.

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[Gene Crucean]

Hey Nikolay,

I disagree that having a few more lines in the readme would bloat anything... however, I was asking about a tutorial... not so much how to install. I have it installed, but didn't see any changes like I did with zsh. That alone makes me feel like user error. I'm sure the error is something on my side.

I also don't have a ~/.config/powerline dir. Hmm.

[Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov]

2017-02-07 22:53 GMT+03:00 Gene Crucean <genec...@gmail.com>:
> Hey Nikolay,
>
> I disagree that having a few more lines in the readme would bloat

Bash is not the only supported application. It would not be “a few more lines”.

> anything... however, I was asking about a tutorial... not so much how to
> install. I have it installed, but didn't see any changes like I did with
> zsh. That alone makes me feel like user error. I'm sure the error is
> something on my side.

After installation there is usage documentation:
http://powerline.readthedocs.io/en/master/usage/shell-prompts.html.
Though powerline documentation definitely needs some refactoring.

Don’t know why you saw any changes in zsh after installation, I think
that you are either using some third-party adapter (OMZ plugin?) or
did not install *this* powerline: starting from the time when
powerline was vim-only it is common to call “powerline” any
prompt/statusline thing which uses powerline glyphs. Powerline
`setup.py` does not configure *anything* to use powerline, it expects
user to do so.

>
> I also don't have a ~/.config/powerline dir. Hmm.

It is for user configuration and is only needed if you want to
override defaults.