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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 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

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

the colors don't change

ensure that set t_Co=256 is set in your vimrc

screenshots

regular font

powerline font

contributions

contributions and pull requests are welcome.

license

:h license