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24 alternatives to vim-airline

lean & mean status/tabline for vim that's light as air - vim-airline/vim-airline

vim-airline is a status and tabline plugin for the Vim text editor that displays file and editor information at the bottom and top of the window. It provides a lightweight interface showing details like file name… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. vim-airline launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    While using iTerm2 while busy working today, I once again felt frustrated by having too many tabs and losing the overall perspective of what tasks were in progress. So, I used v0 + Opus 4.5 to envision an ideal Terminal tab management UI in my mind, to demonstrate the best way for me to manage tabs in the terminal. What do you think?

    Oct 2025 · v0.app · its alternatives →

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    vim.so▲444

    Learn vim fast with interactive exercises in the browser

    2021 · learnvim.com · its alternatives →

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    Airplane▲488

    Quickly transform scripts, SQL, and more into internal tools

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Seek makes navigating long lines effortless, acting like f but taking two characters. - goldfeld/vim-seek

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    While speccing out this spreadsheet tool, I realized that I never had to think about the keybindings. It all just came naturally from Vim. Normal/insert/visual modes, hjkl navigation, dd/yy/p, :w, :q. The usual muscle memory works. It supports CSV/TSV import and export, and a native .cell format that preserves formulas. The formula engine handles SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX, and IF with range references. The codebase is a Cargo workspace: a pure cell-sheet-core library (no TUI dependency) and a cell-sheet-tui crate on top of ratatui. Early days, but it's usable. To…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7VC
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    Notational velocity for vim. . Contribute to alok/notational-fzf-vim development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9VP
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    SkyGuru▲292

    Explains what is going on during your flight in real time.

    2016 · myskyguru.com · its alternatives →

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    virail▲72

    Transport metasearch: trains, flights, buses, car sharing

    2018 · virail.com · its alternatives →

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    Explore essential Neovim and Vim commands, remaps, plugin commands, and create a personalized cheatsheet to boost text editing efficiency.

    2025 · nvim-cheatsheet.vercel.app · its alternatives →

  13. 13VO
  14. 14VL

    Create a layer of shortcuts with xkb for Xorg and Wayland

    2020 · cedaei.com · its alternatives →

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    True Sublime Text style multiple selections for Vim - terryma/vim-multiple-cursors

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Vim customized to be like SublimeText. Contribute to fatih/subvim development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    MacOS system-wide vim mode

    2022 · vim.tonisives.com · its alternatives →

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    Create pixel art inside your terminal using vim movements - sebashwa/vixl44

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    :tulip: Vim plugin that shows keybindings in popup - liuchengxu/vim-which-key

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Your travel companion

    2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Flysms▲103

    Notify your friends and family that you have landed safely.

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Vim for the whole macOS

    2022 · kindavim.app · its alternatives →

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    Identify every aircraft in your sky.

    Jul 2026 · dgrlabs.co · its alternatives →

  24. 24RO

    GitHub: https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/ === Firstly, a big thanks to the HN community for showing us love and support in our previous HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21081756). At that point, we had just open-sourced the repo and were not fully prepared for a Show HN. We wanted to share updates since then and also do our official Show HN. Updates since Sept 2019 1. Changed the name from Rudder to RudderStack :) 2. API compatibility with Segment 3. Open-source control plane so no dependency on the hosted control plane for…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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