usevim Vim links, plugins, screenshots, tutorials, and themes Powerline has been rewritten in Python. The old Vim script version is still available at Lokaltog / vim-powerline. There was a discussion last year, Port core code to Python, where Lokaltog (Kim Silkebækken) discussed the merits of porting the core of Powerline to Python. As a result, the same statusline effect can be applied elsewhere: