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by adamors 4618 days ago
Why are people still using powerline when there's a pure Vimscript implementation? https://github.com/bling/vim-airline
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Or even better, lightline? https://github.com/itchyny/lightline.vim
Why is it even better?

  Why yet another clone of powerline?
    vim-airline is a nice plugin, but it uses too much functions of other plugins, which should be done by users in .vimrc.
So it isn't strictly better just more standalone. I happen to use the other plugins already so I don't mind the dependency.

But I will try airline out. :)

The result of my vexations with powerline -

https://github.com/kadimisetty/vim-simplebar