# vim-airline [](https://travis-ci.org/vim-airline/vim-airline)
Lean & mean status/tabline for vim that's light as air.

When the plugin is correctly loaded, Vim will draw a nice statusline at the
bottom of each window.
That line consists of several sections, each one displaying some piece of
information. By default (without configuration) this line will look like this:
```
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|~ |
|~ |
|~ VIM - Vi IMproved |
|~ |
|~ version 8.0 |
|~ by Bram Moolenaar et al. |
|~ Vim is open source and freely distributable |
|~ |
|~ type :h :q<Enter> to exit |
|~ type :help<Enter> or <F1> for on-line help |
|~ type :help version8<Enter> for version info |
|~ |
|~ |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| A | B | C X | Y | Z | [...] |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
```
The statusline is the colored line at the bottom, which contains the sections
(possibly in different colors):
section|meaning (example)
-------|------------------
A | displays the mode + additional flags like crypt/spell/paste (INSERT)
B | VCS information (branch, hunk summary) (master)
C | filename + read-only flag (~/.vim/vimrc RO)
X | filetype (vim)
Y | file encoding[fileformat] (utf-8[unix])
Z | current position in the file
[...] | additional sections (warning/errors/statistics) from external plugins (e.g. YCM, syntastic, ...)
The information in Section Z looks like this:
`10% ☰ 10/100 ln : 20`
This means:
```