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

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.