I really want to use input mono as my main font for coding, but it seems to push out the alignment on my vim-airline and powerline-shell statuslines.
Rather than get into a whole thing patching fonts with super-tweaked arrow icons I just decided I could live with square separators.
Vim-Airline
Add this to .vimrc:
let g:airline_left_sep = ''
let g:airline_right_sep = ''
Add what you like between the quotes for separators.
Powerline-shell
Add --mode flat as a flag to the line that calls the python script in .bashrc.
The other thing I did with powerline-shell was edit powerline-shell.py to the ‘untracked’ character is not u2753, which is not available on any of the patched fonts. I used u26A0 which is a triangle with an exclaimation mark. Seems appropriate.
I also finally figured out that the colors in powerline-shell/themes/default.py are the ones shown here - cterm or something, I dunno.
Backup default.py change the colors as you like, then run ./install.py.
