vim-airline

Health v2 · maintenance only

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17970 stars · 1101 forks observed · 2026-10-02

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

vim-airline is a Vim plugin that provides a lean, fast statusline and tabline for the Vim editor, displaying mode, VCS branch info, filename, encoding, and cursor position by default. Its companion vim-airline-themes repository supplies a collection of prebuilt themes for styling the statusline.

Use cases

• show a statusline at the bottom of vim windows
• display the current vim mode and file information while editing
• show git branch and hunk summary in the vim statusline
• get a lightweight powerline-style statusline without extra dependencies
• add a tabline showing open buffers and tabs in vim
• apply prebuilt themes to style my vim statusline
• customize what vim shows in the status and tab lines

When to choose

• You use Vim (or Neovim) and want a fast, sensible statusline that works out of the box
• You want a lightweight Powerline alternative written purely in Vim Script with no external dependencies
• You want built-in integration points for VCS info and third-party plugins like linters and syntax checkers
• You want easy theming via the companion vim-airline-themes collection

When to avoid

• You prefer configuring your editor UI in Lua, e.g. lualine on Neovim
• You want a statusline for editors other than Vim/Vim-compatible editors
• You need an extremely minimal setup and are comfortable hand-rolling Vim's built-in 'statusline' option

Facets

plugin · maturity stable

editor developer-tools theme developer-tools text-editors cross-platform cli windows vim-plugin statusline tabline vim-script powerline-alternative editor-customization themes command-line linux macos

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