# Powerline

Powerline is a statusline plugin for Vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome, i3 and Qtile.

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## Installation

Powerline can be installed via two ways - via pacman and via python-pip.

### Official repositories

Install powerline together with the python-pip and powerline-common packages.

### Using python-pip

Please refer to the Powerline installation guide for python-pip instructions.

### Airline-vim alternative

There is currently one known alternative to Powerline - Vim-airline. It is a part of vim-plugins and can be installed separately as vim-airline. Optionally, install vim-airline-themes.

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- Status monitoring and notification
- Development

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