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 root user: :highlight Error

Configuration

• It should be considered to add showtabline=2 to 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