here's a blog post i found that does what you need (http://got-ravings.blogspot.com/2008/10/vim-pr0n-statusline-whitespace-flags.html http://got-ravings.blogspo

here's a blog post i found that does what you need (http://got-ravings.blogspot.com/2008/10/vim-pr0n-statusline-whitespace-flags.html http://got-ravings.blogspot.com/2008/10/vim-pr0n-statusline-...) and then you can replace one of the airline sections with it.