I use Maximum Awesome when I code in vim, it’s a great starting place for configuring your Vim IDE (or whatever you’d like to call it). Anyhow, I have a pull request which adds support for vim-airline. It seems like that won’t be merged into maximum-awesome so I figured I’d document how to add support for vim-airline with a standard maximum-awesome installation.
First of all, add the following to your ~/.vimrc.bundles.local:
Bundle 'bling/vim-airline'
Then enable vim-airline in your ~/.vimrc.local file:
" Enable vim-airline
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#enabled = 1
Now fire up vim and execute :BundleInstall. That will download vim-airline and you should be good to go. Here’s an example of my vim-airline installation:
PS. To add the nice looking symbols, please look at these instructions. DS.