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

Maybe Arch's default vimrc (possibly /etc/vim/vimrc) doesn't play well with Pathogen. Try starting Vim without loading config files:

vim -u NONE

and then load your vimrc from within vim:

:so ~/.vimrc

Do the plugins work then?

Answer 2

My environment is Vim 7.3.35 and Ubuntu 11.04.

I spent some time trying to resolve it. I clone the project https://github.com:r00k/dotfiles and follow the instructions to install.

When started vi a got the so commented

E117: Unknown function: pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles

and the solution:

filetype off

call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()

filetype on

did not work.

I found the .vim symlink in my home directory where no properly set. The install script made a .vim DIRECTORY with a symlink vim inside of it pointing to my .dotfiles/vim. The solution was to delete the .vim directory and make a symlink .vim pointing .dotfiles/vim.

A kept the filetype off/on in my .vimrc also.

Answer 3

After spending waaaay too long trying to solve this problem with nerd-commenter/pathogen, I broke down and just used Debian's OS provided nerd-commenter plugin:

vim-addons install nerd-commenter

If you're on Debian and need to get back to work, try it out. You probably need "vim-addon-manager" and "vim-scripts" packages installed from apt if you don't have it already.

Answer 4

filetype off                                                                
call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
call pathogen#helptags()

Answer 5

Try to check your runtime path using command: :set runtimepath? First entry should be something like ~/.vim.

My problem with not loading plugins/pathogen was that i placed my vim environment in ~/.dotfiles/vim where my vimrc and rest of the stuff (plugins etc.) lives. After creating symlink to ~/.dotfiles/vim/vimrc in ~/.vimrc i forgot to make second symlink ~/.vim -> ~/.dotfiles/vim/ which caused vim to be confused cause he was looking for stuff in ~/.vim (default). After i made proper symlink everything poped in right place.

I hope it will help someone who forgot about second symlink like I did ;-)

Answer 6

I have it in mine as:

silent! call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()