Vim status line not working
<p>I'm on OS X and I've installed Vim using Homebrew via</p>

<pre><code>brew install vim
</code></pre>

<p>I noticed that whenever I use Vim, there is no status line appearing at the bottom. I thought I could fix it by always displaying the status line by adding the following to vimrc:</p>

<pre><code>:set laststatus=2
</code></pre>

<p>This shows me the status line but it's just an empty line above the ruler. It looks like this:
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/x1Z2E.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/x1Z2E.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>Am I missing something?</p>

<p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>

<p>I want to use Vim for Haskell. I've installed <a href="https://github.com/sdiehl/haskell-vim-proto/tree/master/vim" rel="nofollow">haskell-vim-proto</a>. I'm using the included included <a href="https://github.com/sdiehl/haskell-vim-proto/blob/master/vimrc" rel="nofollow">vimrc</a> which should result in showing things like syntax errors in the status line. When I edit Haskell files (with the <a href="https://github.com/sdiehl/haskell-vim-proto/blob/master/vimrc" rel="nofollow">vimrc</a>), there is no status bar in my Vim. Adding <code>set laststatus=2</code> to the vimrc results in a blank status line showing. </p>

<p>When I'm following tutorials that install Vim through HomeBrew (as I did), opening any time of file with Vim shows the status line at the bottom containing things like this:</p>

<p>I'm literally following <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJV7m-NGwDg&amp;list=PLiq_R1OaB2FKZxNFf16uhu5gfi3YufNEU" rel="nofollow">this</a> tutorial. When he opens .bash_profile with Vim, it looks like this:
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/njB1e.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/njB1e.png" alt="enter image description here"></a>
When I do the exact same thing, it looks like this:
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qQpqn.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qQpqn.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>