Powerline

Last week I wrote about Powerline Alternatives, and there was also a Hacker News thread about vim-airline where one of the posters had this useful tip about Powerline:

The delay in leaving insert mode used to drive me nuts in vim-powerline. I posted an issue and the…

Although Powerline is extremely popular (and looks undeniably cool), it does take a bit of effort to install. It used to be distributed as a Vim plugin, but was superseded by a Python script that many struggled to install. The advantage of the Python script is it consolidates…