vim-plug VS vim-airline

Compare vim-plug vs vim-airline and see what are their differences.

vim-plug

:hibiscus: Minimalist Vim Plugin Manager (by junegunn)
Vim

vim-airline

lean & mean status/tabline for vim that's light as air (by vim-airline)
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vim-plug vim-airline
138 58
33,156 17,627
- 0.4%
6.9 6.2
20 days ago 2 months ago
Vim Script Vim Script
MIT License MIT License
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vim-plug

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-plug. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-21.

vim-airline

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-airline. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.
  • Auto-completion problems for terraform
    9 projects | /r/neovim | 24 May 2023
  • Include octal on statusline?
    2 projects | /r/vim | 28 Mar 2023
  • CoC: How to disable these annoying Clangd messages?
    1 project | /r/neovim | 22 Mar 2023
    Looks like you are using Airline for your statusline. Add this to your init.vim: let g:airline#extensions#coc#enabled = v:false
  • How do I make my nvim have this? I like having the mode in colors
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 13 Mar 2023
  • Hello, can someone tell me which editor this is?
    1 project | /r/Ubuntu | 10 Mar 2023
  • How do I make airline transparent?
    1 project | /r/vim | 16 Feb 2023
  • How do you work with buffers?
    16 projects | /r/neovim | 1 Feb 2023
    Powerline (and airline, as well as all plugins of that kind) offers, among other things, a GUI that helps you manage buffers and tabs. There are plugins that do just that and nothing else, which are best used alongside powerline/airline/etc, for example bufferline.
  • Transitioning vim-airline theme to Lua
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 24 Jan 2023
    I am working on adding a theme for the vim-airline plugin to the Everblush colorschemes for Vim and Neovim.
  • NeoVim Installation and Configuration on Win10/11
    14 projects | dev.to | 30 Nov 2022
    :set number :set autoindent :set tabstop=5 :set shiftwidth=4 :set smarttab :set softtabstop=4 :set mouse=a call plug#begin() Plug 'http://github.com/tpope/vim-surround' " Surrounding ysw) Plug 'https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree' " NerdTree Plug 'https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary' " For Commenting gcc & gc Plug 'https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline' " Status bar Plug 'https://github.com/lifepillar/pgsql.vim' " PSQL Pluging needs :SQLSetType pgsql.vim Plug 'https://github.com/ap/vim-css-color' " CSS Color Preview Plug 'https://github.com/rafi/awesome-vim-colorschemes' " Retro Scheme Plug 'https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim' " Auto Completion Plug 'https://github.com/ryanoasis/vim-devicons' " Developer Icons Plug 'https://github.com/tc50cal/vim-terminal' " Vim Terminal Plug 'https://github.com/preservim/tagbar' " Tagbar for code navigation Plug 'https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors' " CTRL + N for multiple cursors Plug 'https://github.com/rstacruz/vim-closer' " For brackets autocompletion " Auto-completion For Javascript, typescript, html, jsx ...etc Plug 'neoclide/coc.nvim', {'do': 'yarn install --frozen-lockfile'} " this is for auto complete, prettier and tslinting let g:coc_global_extensions = ['coc-tslint-plugin', 'coc-tsserver', 'coc-css', 'coc-html', 'coc-json', 'coc-prettier'] " list of CoC extensions needed Plug 'jiangmiao/auto-pairs' "this will auto close ( [ { " these two plugins will add highlighting and indenting to JSX and TSX files. Plug 'yuezk/vim-js' Plug 'HerringtonDarkholme/yats.vim' Plug 'maxmellon/vim-jsx-pretty' set encoding=UTF-8 call plug#end() nnoremap :NERDTreeFocus nnoremap :NERDTree nnoremap :NERDTreeToggle nnoremap :call CocActionAsync('jumpDefinition') nmap :TagbarToggle :set completeopt-=preview " For No Previews :colorscheme jellybeans let g:NERDTreeDirArrowExpandable="+" let g:NERDTreeDirArrowCollapsible="~" " --- Just Some Notes --- " :PlugClean :PlugInstall :UpdateRemotePlugins " " :CocInstall coc-python " :CocInstall coc-clangd " :CocInstall coc-snippets " :CocCommand snippets.edit... FOR EACH FILE TYPE " air-line let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1 if !exists('g:airline_symbols') let g:airline_symbols = {} endif " airline symbols let g:airline_left_sep = '' let g:airline_left_alt_sep = '' let g:airline_right_sep = '' let g:airline_right_alt_sep = '' let g:airline_symbols.branch = '' let g:airline_symbols.readonly = '' let g:airline_symbols.linenr = '' inoremap pumvisible() ? coc#_select_confirm() : ""
  • Closing brackets are highlighted in red when in the init.vim file
    9 projects | /r/neovim | 24 Nov 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vim-plug and vim-airline you can also consider the following projects:

packer.nvim - A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config

lualine.nvim - A blazing fast and easy to configure neovim statusline plugin written in pure lua.

astro.nvim - Faster Neovim Configuration

lightline.vim - A light and configurable statusline/tabline plugin for Vim

vundle - Vundle, the plug-in manager for Vim

powerline - Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.

coc.nvim - Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.

lualine.nvim - A blazing fast and easy to configure neovim statusline plugin written in pure lua. [Moved to: https://github.com/nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim]

nvim-lspconfig - Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

tokyonight.nvim - 🏙 A clean, dark Neovim theme written in Lua, with support for lsp, treesitter and lots of plugins. Includes additional themes for Kitty, Alacritty, iTerm and Fish.

gruvbox - Retro groove color scheme for Vim

awesome-neovim - Collections of awesome neovim plugins.