Vim: Recommendations for vimball plugins in pathogen

Solution 1:

You are looking for :UseVimball [path]

Open the vimball up with vim. Instead of sourcing it with :so % do

$ vim somthing.vba
:!mkdir ~/.vim/bundle/bundle-dir-name-here
:UseVimball ~/.vim/bundle/bundle-dir-name-here

Note you will have to make sure the path exists before you execute this command.

:h :UseVimball