diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d4c7bb01..8131b4ab 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ This is the Changelog for the vim-airline project.
       recreating the highlighting groups (which might have a serious performance
       impact if done very often, as might be the case when the configuration variable 
       `airline_skip_empty_sections` is active).
+    - airline can now also detect multiple cursor mode (issue #1933)
 
 ## [0.10] - 2018-12-15
 - New features
diff --git a/autoload/airline.vim b/autoload/airline.vim
index 87d6020c..27a8646d 100644
--- a/autoload/airline.vim
+++ b/autoload/airline.vim
@@ -226,7 +226,11 @@ function! airline#check_mode(winnr)
     else
       let l:mode = ['normal']
     endif
-    if index(['Rv', 'no', 'ni', 'ix', 'ic'], l:m) == -1
+    if exists("*VMInfos") && !empty(VMInfos())
+      " Vim plugin Multiple Cursors https://github.com/mg979/vim-visual-multi
+      let l:m = 'multi'
+    endif
+    if index(['Rv', 'no', 'ni', 'ix', 'ic', 'multi'], l:m) == -1
       let l:m = l:m[0]
     endif
     let w:airline_current_mode = get(g:airline_mode_map, l:m, l:m)
diff --git a/autoload/airline/init.vim b/autoload/airline/init.vim
index 095155ca..1a684892 100644
--- a/autoload/airline/init.vim
+++ b/autoload/airline/init.vim
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ function! airline#init#bootstrap()
         \ 'i'  : 'INSERT',
         \ 'ic' : 'INSERT COMPL',
         \ 'ix' : 'INSERT COMPL',
+        \ 'multi' : 'MULTI',
         \ 'n'  : 'NORMAL',
         \ 'ni' : '(INSERT)',
         \ 'no' : 'OP PENDING',
diff --git a/doc/airline.txt b/doc/airline.txt
index f57ffd31..00977920 100644
--- a/doc/airline.txt
+++ b/doc/airline.txt
@@ -176,24 +176,26 @@ values):
 
   " or copy paste the following into your vimrc for shortform text
   let g:airline_mode_map = {
-      \ '__' : '-',
-      \ 'c'  : 'C',
-      \ 'i'  : 'I',
-      \ 'ic' : 'I',
-      \ 'ix' : 'I',
-      \ 'n'  : 'N',
-      \ 'ni' : 'N',
-      \ 'no' : 'N',
-      \ 'R'  : 'R',
-      \ 'Rv' : 'R',
-      \ 's'  : 'S',
-      \ 'S'  : 'S',
-      \ '' : 'S',
-      \ 't'  : 'T',
-      \ 'v'  : 'V',
-      \ 'V'  : 'V',
-      \ '' : 'V',
+      \ '__'     : '-',
+      \ 'c'      : 'C',
+      \ 'i'      : 'I',
+      \ 'ic'     : 'I',
+      \ 'ix'     : 'I',
+      \ 'n'      : 'N',
+      \ 'multi'  : 'M',
+      \ 'ni'     : 'N',
+      \ 'no'     : 'N',
+      \ 'R'      : 'R',
+      \ 'Rv'     : 'R',
+      \ 's'      : 'S',
+      \ 'S'      : 'S',
+      \ ''     : 'S',
+      \ 't'      : 'T',
+      \ 'v'      : 'V',
+      \ 'V'      : 'V',
+      \ ''     : 'V',
       \ }
+   Note: 'multi' is for displaying the multiple cursor mode
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 * define the set of filename match queries which excludes a window from having
   its statusline modified >