65 lines
2.3 KiB
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65 lines
2.3 KiB
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# vim-airline
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lean & mean statusline for vim that's light as air
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# rationale
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there's already [powerline][b], why yet another statusline?
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* it's standard vimscript, no python needed
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* it's small. i want the entire plugin to be less than 200 lines as a rule
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* it gets you 90% of the way there; in addition to all the standard goodies, it integrates with [vim-bufferline][f], [fugitive][d], and [syntastic][e]
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* it looks good with regular fonts, and provides configuration points so you can use unicode or powerline symbols
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* it's fast to load, taking roughly 1ms. by comparison, powerline needs 60ms on the same machine.
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what about [old powerline][a]?
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* the old version still works well, but since its deprecated new features won't get added
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# why's it called airline?
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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!
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# configuration
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`:help airline`
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# prerequisites
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for this plugin to work properly `lazyredraw` needs to be set. during development i had this on the entire time, and it turns out that this has a major impact in colors being able to change prompty (ironic that lazy == eager here). i'm still tracking down the cause and hopefully in the future this requirement can be removed.
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# faq/troubleshooting
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1. the powerline font symbols are not showing up
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* the older deprecated [vim-powerline][a] uses different codes compared to the newer [powerline][b].
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* you can grab prepatched fonts at [powerline-fonts][c], or you can manually set the relevant `g:` variables
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2. there is a pause when leaving insert mode
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* you need to set `ttimeoutlen` to a low number; 50 is recommended
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3. you get the error `Unknown function: fugitive#head`
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* you are probably using version 1.2, which is very old...download v2 from the [project page][d].
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# screenshots
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## regular font
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## powerline font
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# contributions
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contributions and pull requests are welcome.
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# license
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`:h license`
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[a]: https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline
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[b]: https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline
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[c]: https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts
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[d]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
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[e]: https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic
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[f]: https://github.com/bling/vim-bufferline
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