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Comment by mnazim | Hacker News Reader

The way you would install any Vim plugin. Extract these files inside your ~/.vim directory such that.

    copy vim-poweline/autoload/* to ~/.vim/autoload/*
    copy vim-poweline/doc/* to ~/.vim/doc/*    
    copy vim-poweline/plugin/* to ~/.vim/plugin/*

and so on.

PS. Learn Pathogen or Vundle. It will be very well invested time.

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If you don't want to install pathogen or vundle here is another simple way:

   ~/.vim $ git clone https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline.git powerline

Edit your ~/.vimrc and add

    set runtimepath=~/.vim/powerline,$VIMRUNTIME

Since some plugins write temporary files to the first directory in runtimepath, this could have unintended consequences though.

I just learnt Vundle. It took all of a minute to read the three lines of documentation, and now all my vim instances will always be in sync.

thank you

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