there's already [powerline](https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline), why yet another statusline?
* it's standard vimscript, no python needed
* it's small. i want the entire plugin to be less than 200 lines as a rule
* gets you 90% of the way there: in addition to all the standard goodies, supports [fugitve](https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive) and [syntastic](https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic)
* it's fast. since it's so small, it only takes 0.6ms to load. by requiring python, powerline needs 60ms on the same machine.
# why's it called airline?
i wrote this on an airplane, and since it's light as air it turned out to be a good name :-)
# configuration
there are a couple configuration values available:
*`g:airline_left_sep` the seperator used on the left side
*`g:airline_right_sep` the seperator used on the right side