Lean & mean status/tabline for vim that's light as air.
- Tiny core written with extensibility in mind (open/closed principle).
- Integrates with a variety of plugins, including: vim-bufferline, fugitive, unite, ctrlp, minibufexpl, gundo, undotree, nerdtree, tagbar, vim-gitgutter, vim-signify, syntastic, eclim, lawrencium, virtualenv, tmuxline, taboo.vim, ctrlspace and more.
- 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.
- Extensive suite of themes for popular color schemes including solarized (dark and light), tomorrow (all variants), base16 (all variants), molokai, jellybeans and others; have a look at the screenshots in the wiki.
- Supports 7.2 as the minimum Vim version.
- The master branch tries to be as stable as possible, and new features are merged in only after they have gone through a full regression test.
- Unit testing suite.
If you don't like the defaults, you can replace all sections with standard statusline syntax. Give your statusline that you've built over the years a face lift.
Sections and parts within sections can be configured to automatically hide when the window size shrinks.
Automatically displays all buffers when there's only one tab open.
This is disabled by default; add the following to your vimrc to enable the extension:
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#enabled = 1
Separators can be configured independently for the tabline, so here is how you can define "straight" tabs:
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#left_sep = ' '
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#left_alt_sep = '|'
vim-airline integrates with a variety of plugins out of the box. These extensions will be lazily loaded if and only if you have the other plugins installed (and of course you can turn them off).
hunks (vim-gitgutter & vim-signify)
vim-airline also supplies some supplementary stand-alone extensions. In addition to the tabline extension mentioned earlier, there is also:
Every section is composed of parts, and you can reorder and reconfigure them at will.
Sections can contain accents, which allows for very granular control of visuals (see configuration here).
Completely transform the statusline to your liking. Build out the statusline as you see fit by extracting colors from the current colorscheme's highlight groups.
There's already powerline, why yet another statusline?
- 100% vimscript; no python needed.
What about vim-powerline?
- vim-powerline has been deprecated in favor of the newer, unifying powerline, which is under active development; the new version is written in python at the core and exposes various bindings such that it can style statuslines not only in vim, but also tmux, bash, zsh, and others.
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!
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- Remember to run
:Helptagsto generate help tags - NeoBundle
NeoBundle 'bling/vim-airline'- Vundle
Plugin 'bling/vim-airline'- VAM
call vam#ActivateAddons([ 'vim-airline' ])- manual
- copy all of the files into your
~/.vimdirectory
