gvim pathogen issues

Question

I downloaded pathogen.vim from github and put it in \"autoload\" directory under ~/.vim. However now when I fire up gvim, and do :helptags, it says \"Argument required\". Th

Answer 1

I use pathogen and I find it great, but you don't need pathogen at all to use NERDTree.

Just put the files like this then issue :helptags ~/.vim/doc and it will work:

~/.vim/doc/NERD_tree.txt
~/.vim/nerdtree_plugin/exec_menuitem.vim
~/.vim/nerdtree_plugin/fs_menu.vim
~/.vim/plugin/NERD_tree.vim

My setup with pathogen is very standard:

~/.vim/bundle/NERD_tree/doc/NERD_tree.txt
~/.vim/bundle/NERD_tree/nerdtree_plugin/exec_menuitem.vim
~/.vim/bundle/NERD_tree/nerdtree_plugin/fs_menu.vim
~/.vim/bundle/NERD_tree/nerdtree_plugin/insert_image.vim <-- a custom script not included with the distribution
~/.vim/bundle/NERD_tree/plugin/NERD_tree.vim

and works like a charm.

It it helps, here are the first lines of my ~/.vimrc:

" This must be first, because it changes other options as side effect
set nocompatible

" Use pathogen to easily modify the runtime path to include all plugins under
" the ~/.vim/bundle directory
filetype off                    " force reloading *after* pathogen loaded
call pathogen#helptags()
call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
filetype plugin indent on       " enable detection, plugins and indenting in one step