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vim-airline

lean & mean statusline for vim that's light as air

rationale

there's already 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
it gets you 90% of the way there; in addition to all the standard goodies, it integrates with vim-bufferline, fugitive, and syntastic
it looks good with regular fonts, and provides configuration points so you can use unicode or powerline symbols
it's fast to load, taking roughly 1ms. by comparison, powerline needs 60ms on the same machine.

the old version still works well, but since its deprecated new features won't get added

why's it called airline?

i wrote the initial version on an airplane, and since it's light as air it turned out to be a good name. thanks for flying vim!

configuration

:help airline

prerequisites

for this plugin to work properly lazyredraw needs to be set. during development i had this on the entire time, and it turns out that this has a major impact in colors being able to change prompty (ironic that lazy == eager here). i'm still tracking down the cause and hopefully in the future this requirement can be removed.

faq/troubleshooting

the powerline font symbols are not showing up

the older deprecated vim-powerline uses different codes compared to the newer powerline.
you can grab prepatched fonts at powerline-fonts, or you can manually set the relevant g: variables

there is a pause when leaving insert mode

you need to set ttimeoutlen to a low number; 50 is recommended

you get the error Unknown function: fugitive#head

you are probably using version 1.2, which is very old...download v2 from the project page.

screenshots

regular font

powerline font

contributions

contributions and pull requests are welcome.

license

:h license

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