Pathogen does not load plugins

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#runtime_append_all_bundles()

filetype plugin indent on
set nocompatible
syntax on
set tabstop=2
set smarttab
set shiftwidth=2
set autoindent
set expandtab
set number
colorscheme darkblue

Contents of .vim - ls .vim/*:

.vim/autoload:
pathogen.vim

.vim/bundle:
nerdcommenter/  vim-haml/   vim-surround/
vim-endwise/    vim-rails/  vim-vividchalk/

All plugins in bundle were installed by cloning them from GitHub into bundle directory.

I have tried with pathogen 1.1 and 1.2 and even the latest from GitHub without any result. Vividchalk, Vim-rails and nerdcommenter are not working. I have very little experience with other plugs so I am not sure about them, but I suppose they are not working too.

I am using ArchLinux, vim 7.2.385-1 (not the latest because the latest requires me to install ruby1.9, but it is still 7.2). It has been installed via pacman - ArchLinux package manager. No vim plugins were installed the other way than using pathogen (I have even reinstalled vim package with cleaning /usr/share/vim).

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT:

• /etc/vimrc http://hpaste.org/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=29685#a29685
• /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/archlinux.vim http://hpaste.org/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=29686#a29686

Solution 1:

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.

Solution 2:

I was having a similar problem. Pathogen was loading some of my plugins while not all of them. After some fiddling and wondering I discovered (I don't know if it's mentioned in the documentation) that in each bundle/'plugin_name' folder, there should be another folder called plugin that contains the *.vim file.

Then, when vim starts will look, not in bundle, but in those folders within bundle that contain a folder called plugin... and will create other folders (in each plugin folder).

So, if the plugin is just a .vim file make a folder for it...

instead of:

~/.vim/bundle/vimexplorer/vimExplorer.vim

you need:

~/.vim/bundle/vimexplorer/plugin/vimExplorer.vim

And everything works like a charm.

Solution 3:

I've had problems loading particular plugins: specifically, plugins with a plugin subdirectory. For example, on a fresh MacVim install, a plugin in ~/.vim/bundle/surround/plugin/surround.vim wasn't being loaded, even though ~/.vim/bundle/surround appeared in the output of :scriptnames.

The problem was that I was loading Pathogen in .gvimrc, not .vimrc. For whatever reason, stuff in .vim/bundle/*/plugin subdirectories won't load if you do that, so do it in .vimrc!

I've opened an issue on github—I don't know if it can be made to work even if it loads from .gvimrc, but there should at least be some sort of warning in the documentation for idiots like me.

Solution 4:

If your .vim is based on a git repo and submodules, DO REMEMBER to run git submodule init and git submodule update after cloning the repo. i.e.

git submodule init
git submodule update

I had the same error and tried all of the above, but it didn't work. Until I initialized and updated the git submodules.

Hope this helps for anyone who has a similar error.

Solution 5:

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?