I installed the Airline plugin in order to have a custom status bar, as seen in the figure below:However, my status bar is presenting the symbols <, >> and <. How do I fix this problem?
How do I fix the status bar symbols in the Airline plugin?
plugin vim airline
Actually I don't understand why your question is voted down. Honestly at first I too didn't understand what to need to be done to get this nice looking toolbar. Yes I know about README and other stuff, but I think it should be getting started or minimum settings sections in the help file.Anyway here are settings.Installing appropriate fontsYou need to install fonts into your system with that symbols like branching, big triangles etc. They are not standard symbols so you need to install patched font. You can find a lot of patched fonts here https://github.com/powerline/fonts..vimrc settingsPlace this code into your .vimrc file: air-linelet g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1if !exists('g:airline_symbols')    let g:airline_symbols = {}endif unicode symbolslet g:airline_left_sep = ''let g:airline_left_sep = ''let g:airline_right_sep = ''let g:airline_right_sep = ''let g:airline_symbols.linenr = ''let g:airline_symbols.linenr = ''let g:airline_symbols.linenr = ''let g:airline_symbols.branch = ''let g:airline_symbols.paste = ''let g:airline_symbols.paste = ''let g:airline_symbols.paste = ''let g:airline_symbols.whitespace = '' airline symbolslet g:airline_left_sep = ''let g:airline_left_alt_sep = ''let g:airline_right_sep = ''let g:airline_right_alt_sep = ''let g:airline_symbols.branch = ''let g:airline_symbols.readonly = ''let g:airline_symbols.linenr = ''Unicode symbols section actually unnecessary here if you have already patched font but it give you a nice fallback if you try to use other font which doesn't have appropriate symbols.Font settingsIf you use vim in terminal you should install that font in the terminal, or if you use gui-version of vim (MacVim, GVim) you need to set font in .vimrc, for example: set guifont=DejaVu\ Sans:s12. More information you can find here :help guifont