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

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.