From 66d4c8c89328f389c58d87fe2379c946f0e7c14d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bailey Ling <bling@live.ca>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:18:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] prevent clobbering startup info message. resolves #156.

---
 autoload/airline.vim | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/autoload/airline.vim b/autoload/airline.vim
index f1914761..501e537e 100644
--- a/autoload/airline.vim
+++ b/autoload/airline.vim
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ function! airline#switch_theme(name)
   let w:airline_lastmode = ''
   call airline#update_statusline()
   call airline#load_theme()
+
+  " this is required to prevent clobbering the startup info message, i don't know why...
+  call airline#check_mode(winnr())
 endfunction
 
 function! airline#switch_matching_theme()