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 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.