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vim-airline

Lean & mean statusline for vim that's light as air.

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Features

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Rationale

There's already powerline, why yet another statusline?

  • 100% vimscript; no python needed.

What about vim-powerline?

  • the author has been active developing powerline, which was rewritten in python and expands its capabilities to tools outside of Vim, such as bash, zsh, and tmux.
  • vim-powerline has been deprecated as a result, and no features will be added to it.
  • vim-powerline uses different font codes, so if you want to use it with a powerline themed tmux (for example), it will not work.

Where did the name come from?

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!

Installation

This plugin follows the standard runtime path structure, and as such it can be installed with a variety of plugin managers:

  • Pathogen
  • git clone https://github.com/bling/vim-airline ~/.vim/bundle/vim-airline
  • NeoBundle
  • NeoBundle 'bling/vim-airline'
  • Vundle
  • Bundle 'bling/vim-airline'
  • VAM
  • call vam#ActivateAddons([ 'vim-airline' ])
  • manual
  • copy all of the files into your ~/.vim directory

Configuration

:help airline

Integrating with powerline fonts

For the nice looking powerline symbols to appear, you will need to install a patched font. Instructions can be found in the official powerline documentation. Prepatched fonts can be found in the powerline-fonts repository.

Finally, enable them in vim-airline by adding let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1 to your vimrc.

FAQ

Solutions to common problems can be found in the Wiki.

Themes/Screenshots

A full list of screenshots can be found in the Wiki.

Bugs

Tracking down bugs can take a very long time due to different configurations, versions, and operating systems. To ensure a timely response, please help me out by doing the following:

  • reproduce it with this minivimrc repository to rule out any configuration conflicts.
  • a link to your vimrc or a gist which shows how you configured the plugin(s).
  • and so I can reproduce; your :version of vim, and the commit of vim-airline you're using.

Contributions

Contributions and pull requests are welcome. Please take note of the following guidelines:

  • adhere to the existing style as much as possible; notably, 2 space indents and long-form keywords.
  • keep the history clean! squash your branches before you submit a pull request. pull --rebase is your friend.
  • any changes to the core should be tested against Vim 7.2.
  • if you submit a theme, please create a screenshot so it can be added to the Wiki.

License

MIT license. Copyright (c) 2013 Bailey Ling.

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