On syntastic repo https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic#installation, the only example they provide for installing syntastic is using pathogen.
How should install it without pathogen or any package manager?
Pathogen is only needed for Vim 7 or earlier. In Vim 8 all "Pathogen's" functionality is already built-in, and you should never use it at all.
To install a plugin in Vim 8 you only have to put it under the following path: ~/.vim/pack/<bundle>/start/<plugin-name> Here <bundle> can be any name of your choice. Then restart Vim and issue :helptags ALL to rebuild help tags, and you're done.
There still remains a question how you'll be updating your plugins, but you can do it manually with git etc.
After reading the accepted answer I realised my problem was down to an error in the installation documentation for syntastic.
Where it says to restart vim and then type :Helptags it should actually say :helptags (with a lower-case H)
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I want to use Vim to write scientific articles, and was hoping to use
Citation.vim for references management along with Zotero.
https://github.com/vim-scripts/Citation.vim
To install Citation.vim, it is mentioned that Unite.vim has to be installed first.
https://github.com/Shougo/unite.vim
I am using the vim-plug plugin manager. I have cloned the files in my ~/.vim folder, but don't know how to install Unite.vim with the specific vim command.
https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug
Does anyone has recommendations how to do it?
I found a way,using in Vim, or writing in .vimrc:
Plug 'Shougo/unite.vim'
Plug 'vim-scripts/Citation.vim'
orror in compile prses. how to solve it?
According to this blog post, you just have to compile the YouCompleteMe modules by running the install.sh script in the YCM install.
cd ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe
./install.sh --clang-completer
Once this completes you should be able to install the plugin (here's how to do it with Vundle). Once in Vim
:source ~/.vimrc
:PluginInstall
Apparently, when you run ./.install.sh --clang-completer it says that it is "out of date."
I ran python2 install.py and it worked for me. (I believe it was python2.)
Also, I had was using vim and neovim, and I decided to do ./install.sh --clang-completer inside my ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim/ and at the same tim decided to do python2 install.py inside my ~/.configs/nvim/bundle/Vundle.vim/ and the python install installed faster and did the same thing.
The difference might be that you need to "compile vim with pdython support," but the simple fix for that is installing python-nvim (if using neovim), or - I think - vim just comes with python support. (? maybe.)
I encountered the same error message when trying out new neovim installation. In my case, it was because I was using vim-plugin and the plugins are installed in the ~/.vim/plugged instead of ~/.vim/bundle (this is the plugin folder for Vundle before I switched to vim-plug).
Thus, after scratching my head for few hours, turns out I have to run install.sh in the ~/.vim/plugged (not ~/.vim/bundle). I hope this will save someone's time.
When I use vim to open one markdown file. i meet the following issue.
My Vim version is 7.4 and i use it on MacBook Pro with OS X Yosemite.
The following are the vim plugins i installed:
Anybody can help on this? many thanks:-)
Adding runtimepath
I got this error after I installed the Vim plugin YouCompleteMe. After I updated my html5.vim Vim plugin the issue disappeared for me.
You're missing the $VIMRUNTIME/autoload/htmlcomplete.vim script; in your case, it should be at /usr/local/Cellar/vim/7.4.488/share/vim/vim74/autoload/htmlcomplete.vim. If it really isn't there, try reinstalling Vim. Else, it might be a problem with your 'runtimepath'.
Edit: It is the latter; your 'runtimepath' has ~/.vim twice, at the beginning and end, no after directories, and not the .../share/vim/vim74 global one. Find our what messed up your 'runtimepath'.
I just downloaded and installed vim74 on to my linux box. I'm only installing locally, for the user. When I go into vim, and do :help, I get the error.
I tried adding:
let $VIM='home/myuser/vim74'
let $VIMRUNTIME='home/myuser/vim74/runtime'
to my .vimrc but it didn't help. How can I fix this?
When building vim yourself and installing locally it seems that you need to generate the helptags manually from within vim since the build process doesn't seem to do it. I ran into this very same issue when building the latest vim version 8.0.311. I followed the link in Ben Klein's comment above, but both my &helpfile and &runtimepath were correct, yet I still received the E149 error when doing :help which I assume is your situation as well postelrich.
I found the helptags solution here:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/1087
Even though I was installing vim locally on a centos system and not a mac, the issue seems to be universal. I just replaced $VIMRUNTIME with the path to the local vim runtime installed from make install, which in your case may be something like /home/myuser/vim74/runtime
Specifically I ran this from within vim:
:helptags ~/share/vim/vim80/doc
In your case you will probably run something like:
:helptags ~/vim74/runtime/doc
Once done, :help should immediately start working again without having to restart vim.
You can get the same “E149 Sorry no help for help.txt” error if you have a long-running Vim session and the Vim program files were upgraded in the meantime.
This happened to me: I had started an editing session in a GNU screen window on my Debian testing system using Vim 8.1. Some time later, unattenttended-upgrades upgraded Vim 8.1 to 8.2 with the result that the run-time paths were now no longer valid. I could have saved the session and restarted Vim, but it was simpler/easier to run the following command (specific to 8.2):
:set helpfile=/usr/share/vim/vim82/doc/help.txt
I just installed gvim on fresh installation of ubuntu lucid. I've messed this up before that's why I want to start on the correct step here.
Where should I keep all my plugins and my .vimrc??
my current runtimepath on gvim is:
runtimepath=~/.vim,/var/lib/vim/addons,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/vim72,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after,/var/lib/vim/addons/after,~/.vim/after
one thing that i've never been able to get working on gvim is snipMate. Anyone has pointers on having that work with gvim?
I use pathogen with ~/.vimrc and plugins in ~/.vim/bundle, more details here. You can see an example here.
Plugin folder is always under ~home/.vim or ~home/vimfiles your vim configuration file or .vimrc always in your ~home/ as for example: ~home/.vimrc
Snipmate fully works for me under Ubuntu. unzip it correclty and it should work right. BTW a great great plugin.