vim-airline

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

Rationale

There's already powerline, why yet another statusline?

it's 100% vimscript; no python needed.
it's small. i want the core plugin to be less than 200 lines as a rule (specifically adhering to the open/closed principle).
despite the small size, it is fully featured and already integrates with: vim-bufferline, fugitive, unite, ctrlp, minibufexpl, gundo, undotree, nerdtree, tagbar, syntastic and lawrencium.
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.
it's fully customizable; if you know a little statusline syntax you can tweak it to your needs.
it's trivial to write colorschemes; for a minimal theme you need to edit 9 lines of colors. (please send pull requests if you create new themes!)

What about old powerline?

the old version still works well, but since it's deprecated new features won't get added
it uses different font codes, which makes it incompatible with other powerline bindings in the same terminal (e.g. bash, zsh, tmux, etc.)

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'
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.

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.
include your version of vim, including patches, and operating system (:version will contain this information).
a link to your vimrc or a gist which shows how you configured the plugin(s)

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.
this plugin got a lot more popular than i initially expected, if you make changes to the core, please test on as many versions of vim as possible.
if you submit a theme, please create a screenshot so it can be added to the Wiki.

License

Distributed under the same terms as the Vim license. See :help license.

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