Installing Vim airline using Pathogen (in Ubuntu)

vim-airline is a “lean and mean status/tabline for vim that’s light as air”

Installation

Goto the bundle directory, or create one if it is not already created at .vim/bundle

cd ~/.vim/bundle

clone vim-airline from the github repository

git clone https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline

To allow the plugin to open up as soon as a file is started, add this to the ~/.vimrc file.

set laststatus=2

Add the following line to make sure to get the colors to work correctly

set t_Co=256