Update: Jan 2013 - There is now a new powerline.el (1.2) *Note that these enhancements were made to an earlier version, which has been bugfixed. It should be trivial to extract the xpm data / memoization / condition, for a shape you'd like, I'll patch and pull-request at some stage to add these into the latest version... .... back to the original post. Powerline is an awesome little enhancement fo