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I've installed bling/vim-airline hoping I could have that cool branch name in my status bar.

I followed the instructions on airline's repo and installed tpope/vim-fugitive. But after downloading, installing, modifying and restarting vim, I just couldn't get the branch on the status bar. Instead I've got this:

I'm suspecting something was wrong with my .vimrc file?

Here is the part related to airline:

set ttimeoutlen=50
let g:airline_theme = 'powerlineish'
let g:airline#extensions#hunks#enabled=0
let g:airline#extensions#branch#enabled=1

if !exists('g:airline_symbols')
  let g:airline_symbols = {}
endif
let g:airline_symbols.space = "\ua0"

P.S. I'm new to vim, any advice will be greatly appreciated, thanks!

David
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  • What was your installation method? If it's Vundle, maybe you need to run :PluginInstall once more? – qiubix Feb 26 '15 at 12:14
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    you need install a vim Plugin fugitive fugitive.vim: A Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal Plugin 'tpope/vim-fugitive' – Ming Gao Jan 02 '20 at 06:57

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My reputation isn't high enough to add a comment to quibix's solution hence this comment. The following commit is the last working airline commit that supports the fugitive status line addition. It does appear to break other plugins.

$git checkout e2a120869ba36da5d26df74fb23ef4052d55b6f0

EDIT

Actually fugitive#head() is on the master vim-fugitive branch. I figured out my problem was that fugitive was loaded after airline so airline_section_b was set to ''. Once I renamed the directory so that fugitive loaded before airline, HUNK/BRANCH started loading in the status line.

KinGBin
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Your .vimrc file looks fine. The problem is probably with plugins implementation, because there were some recent changes in airline initialization. Immediate solution to your problem would be to move back a little bit in git history of an airline plugin, as far as I know just the last commit causes problem, so you can just type in:

$ cd ~/.vim/bundle/vim-airline
$ git checkout HEAD~1

If you want to stay up to date with the newest changes, monitor them on github, and run :PluginUpdate (for Vundle installation) or just git pull origin master to get newest features. If problem still exists, just go back a few commits or omit the one causing problems.

I hope it helps :)

qiubix
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