Vim-airline provides a themable vim status bar that makes use of the powerline font. It's similar to vim-powerline, but is much simpler since it uses pure vim configuration instead of scripting languages.

Some of its features:

* Tiny core written with extensibility in mind * Integrates with a variety of vim plugins * Looks good with regular fonts and provides configuration points so you can use unicode or powerline symbols * Optimized for speed; it typically loads in under a millisecond

To use the powerline fonts, add the following lines to your .vimrc: let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1

To enable the top bar, you can add the following to your .vimrc: let g:airline#extensions#tabline#enabled = 1