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vim-airline

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

Features

tiny core (under 200 lines), written with extensibility in mind (specifically adhering to the open/closed principle).
integrates with a variety of plugins, including: vim-bufferline, fugitive, unite, ctrlp, minibufexpl, gundo, undotree, nerdtree, tagbar, syntastic and lawrencium.
looks good with regular fonts and provides configuration points so you can use unicode or powerline symbols.
optimized for speed; it loads in under a millisecond.
fully customizable; if you know a little statusline syntax you can tweak it to your needs.
extensive suite of themes for popular colorschemes including solarized (dark and light), tomorrow (all variants), molokai, jellybeans and others.
supports 7.2 as the minimum Vim version

Rationale

There's already powerline, why yet another statusline?

100% vimscript; no python needed.

What about vim-powerline?

the author has been active developing powerline, which was rewritten in python and expands its capabilities to tools outside of Vim, such as bash, zsh, and tmux.
vim-powerline has been deprecated as a result, and no features will be added to it.
vim-powerline uses different font codes, so if you want to use it with a powerline themed tmux (for example), it will not work.

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'
VAM
call vam#ActivateAddons([ '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.

Themes/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.
a link to your vimrc or a gist which shows how you configured the plugin(s).
and so I can reproduce; your :version of vim, and the commit of vim-airline you're using.

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.
any changes to the core should be tested against Vim 7.2.
if you submit a theme, please create a screenshot so it can be added to the Wiki.