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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
  1. leaving insert mode does not update the statusline
  • you need to set ttimeoutlen to a low number; 50 is recommended
  1. 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

img

powerline font

img

contributions

contributions and pull requests are welcome.

license

:h license