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
• gets you 90% of the way there: in addition to all the standard goodies, supports fugitive and syntastic
• integration with vim-bufferline
• looks good with regular fonts, with support to use powerline font glyths
• it's fast to load. since it's so small, it only takes 0.5ms to load. 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 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

2. leaving insert mode does not update the statusline

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

3. the colors don't change

• you need set lazyredraw and set t_Co=256 in your vimrc
• if you know why these settings affect colors, i'd love to know the reason!

screenshots

regular font

powerline font

contributions

contributions and pull requests are welcome.

license

:h license