vim-fancy-line
This statusline is kept minimalistic and easy to understand. Its main feature
is, that it uses Vims highlight groups correctly and displays the status-
and tab-bar after the definitions in the currently selected colorscheme.
That means, that the highlight groups StatusLine, StatusLineNC,
StatusLineTerm and StatusLineTermNC are considered. Otherwise the bars
look similar to powerline, but that is no wonder, because the symbol
is the only one, which used to be available in code page 437 and thus broadly
compatible.

TLDR;
Key features:
- Compatible (at least) with all pre-installed colorschemes
- Pure Vimscript, no overhead (this is critical with statuslines, because textlock is active during stl updates)
- Displays the tab bar in a different color for the
rootuser::highlight Error
Configuration
- It should be considered to add
showtabline=2to the vimrc - It looks nicer with proper fillchars, e.g.
fillchars+=eob:\ ,vert:\
Installation
This should be sufficient:
git clone https://git.entwicklerseite.de/vim-fancy-line \
~/.vim/pack/coderonline/start/vim-fancy-line
Or as submodule:
git submodule add https://git.entwicklerseite.de/vim-fancy-line \
~/.vim/pack/coderonline/start/vim-fancy-line
Or download the zip file and extract it under ~/.vim/pack/coderonline/start/.
Installation using plugin managers
vim-plug
Plug 'coderonline/vim-fancy-line'
dein.vim
call dein#add('coderonline/vim-fancy-line')
Design goals
- Keep it simple
