Understanding the branch icons / information

[FernandoBasso]

environment

• vim: 8.2 patches 1-510
• vim-airline: 0.10
• colorscheme: vim default theme
• OS: Arch Linux
• Have you reproduced with a minimal vimrc: No
• What is your airline configuration: default, with xtermlight Airline theme
• terminal: xfce4-terminal/tmux
• $TERM variable: screen-256color
• color configuration (:set t_Co?): 256

I am not being able to fully understand the meaning of the icon next to the branch name.

Sometimes there is no icon, sometimes that “lightening” icon, sometimes that icon similar to ∉. Is this something documented somewhere? If not, I'd like a brief explanation, if possible.

Thanks!

[chrisbra]

this issue actually belongs to the vim-airlines repository. Please have a look at the documentation:

From https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline/blob/7c318503815316b78f10803d6b38ca1679128b46/doc/airline.txt#L346-L358

let g:airline_symbols.notexists = 'Ɇ' [...] let g:airline_symbols.dirty='⚡'

the dirty symbol basically means your working directory is dirty (e.g. there are uncommited changes), the notexists symbol means you are editing a file, that has not been commited yet.

Please suggest a documentation improvements. Thanks!

[get-me-power]

I think it is vim-airline's issue. Therefore, I thought it was better to transfer this issue to vim-airline's repo. What do you think? @chrisbra

[chrisbra]

I think this can be closed, right?

[get-me-power]

I agree with @chrisbra