vim-airline/README.md

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# vim-airline
lean & mean statusline for vim that's light as air
# rationale
there's already [powerline][b], 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][f], [fugitive][d], and [syntastic][e]
* it looks good with regular fonts, and provides configuration points so you can use unicode or powerline symbols
* it's fast to load, taking only 0.5ms. by comparison, 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. thanks for flying vim!
# configuration
`:help airline`
# faq
1. the powerline font symbols are not showing up
* the older deprecated [vim-powerline][a] uses different codes compared to the newer [powerline][b].
* you can grab prepatched fonts at [powerline-fonts][c], or you can manually set the relevant `g:` variables
2. there is a pause when leaving insert mode
* you need to set `ttimeoutlen` to a low number; 50 is recommended
3. the colors don't change
* ensure that `set t_Co=256` is set in your vimrc
# screenshots
## regular font
![img](regular.png)
## powerline font
![img](powerline.png)
# contributions
contributions and pull requests are welcome.
# license
`:h license`
[a]: https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline
[b]: https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline
[c]: https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts
[d]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
[e]: https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic
[f]: https://github.com/bling/vim-bufferline