Pathogen does not load plugins

Question

Pathogen does not work for me. I am following Adam Lowe\'s hints posted here (and few more) without any success...

My vimrc:

filetype off
call pathogen         


        

Answer 1

I was facing the same issue, finally after lot of google and tweaking the vimrc file, found the solution. Hope the following code snippet would resolve the issue.

set nocp source /home/ameet/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim "location of my pathogen.vim call pathogen#infect() call pathogen#helptags()

Answer 2

I had the same problem. I tried every possible combination.

Finally I found that if I use mksession to save my Vim workspace and have it load on Vim startup, it made pathogen not load new plugins I put into the bundle folder.

After installing a new plugin I now always delete my session file and start Vim fresh and every plugin loads fine.

filetype off
set nocompatible
set laststatus=2
execute pathogen#infect()
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on

Answer 3

This seems to be common problem caused by the "system" vimrc in some distributions setting filetype on before you set up pathogen. So turning it off and back on again forces plugins to load correctly:

 call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
 filetype off
 syntax on
 filetype plugin indent on

More info here.

Answer 4

Fixed by (mattn & tpope) after raising issue via github

set nocp
call pathogen#infect()
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on
call pathogen#infect()

see https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/issues/50#issuecomment-3137909

Answer 5

For the sake of completion I'll add my solution for this problem.

I just renamed my ~/.gvimrc file to ~/.vimrc, and all my problems were solved. I literally copied my .vim and my .gvimrc from linux and did this change and everything works as expected.

Answer 6

Instead of call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles(), I used call pathogen#infect('~/.vim/bundle') and it worked for me.