Vim Tutorial Airline

Airline

Vim-airline and powerline are both statusline plugins can be used for vim. If you want to use statusline for vim only, try the lightweight plugin Vim-airline. It is easier to setup than powerline.

Vim-airline (normal mode)

Vim-ariline (insert model)

You can install the plugin by the tutorial Add Plugins by Vundle.

Here is the basic settings for airline:

set laststatus=2        " Show statusline all the time
let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1       " Use powerline symbols (You need powerline-symbol-patched fonts installed)

You can download patched fonts from powerline-fonts or use font patcher to patch your favourite font with symbols.