vim plugin not working: schlepp - vim

Yes, I've checked the other similar questions.
I manually installed the schlepp plugin. It's in the bundle directory, next to plugins that are working. In fact, I also put it in the plugin directory.
I put the runtime line in my .vimrc, and verified in vim that it's working. I even did vim -V, and saw that vim is looking in the schlepp folder. And yet, if I do ":help schlepp", it says, "Sorry, no help for schlepp."

If you read the documentation for the plugin, you'll find the instructions for manual installation, which hint quite distinctly at using a plugin manager.
Presuming you have indeed copied the plugin correctly, I guess you forgot :helptags doc.
The plugin seems rather unmaintained. Why not have a look at vim-move instead?

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Vim 8 :helptags not working

As an example, I cloned https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized.git into ~/vimfiles/pack/default/opt (I'm on Windows). This created the plugin folder structure and I'm able to load the solarized colorscheme with :colorscheme solarized.
Now I want to generate helptags, so I run :helptags ~/vimfiles/pack/default/opt/vim-colors-solarized/doc/. No feedback, either success or failure. Then I try typing :h solarized and get the error E149: sorry, no help for solarized.
I looked at the tags file in the docs folder, and while I am unfamiliar with the file's conventions, it clearly looks like there should be a tag for solarized.
What have I done wrong, or what can I try to do to troubleshoot this?
Thanks to princker in /r/vim
Apparently you must add optional packages with :packadd prior to generating helptags. In fact, later experience leads me to believe that simply executing :packadd is sufficient to also generate helptags. This problem does not occur for packages placed in the startup folder of a package.

Vim picking up Cscope command instead of ctags?

I have installed ctags but not installed cscope.
When I press Ctrl-], vim correctly takes me to the definition.
However, when I press Ctrl-t, it replies back with error - "E567: no cscope connections".
vim --version has +cscope in it.
I tried setting "set nocst" in my vimrc, but to no avail.
Try:
:set csto=1
From the documentation http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_cscop.html#csto
The value of 'csto' determines the order in which |:cstag| performs a search.
If 'csto' is set to zero, cscope database(s) are searched first, followed
by tag file(s) if cscope did not return any matches. If 'csto' is set to
one, tag file(s) are searched before cscope database(s). The default is zero.
I hope this will help you.
You may have cscope_maps.vim installed. Or, perhaps another related cscope related plugin/bundle. If so, you'll need to remove it.
If you already have ctags installed and you are trying to use an outline viewer for your code, I would recommend using https://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar. It works really well with just ctags.
If you are are using Vundle, install using
Plugin 'majutsushi/tagbar'

Unable to use fugitive.vim on gVim on Windows 7

I am using gVim on Windows 7 and I have tried installing fugitive.vim as described here.
As per the link , I have extracted fugitive.vim to
vim73/plugin folder which is in the runtime path for my gVim. But when I restart the gVim, I get "Not an editor command" message when I type in :Gedit , or :Git and also :h fugitive isn't giving a help page.
Also, I tried using the recommended pathogen.vim method as described here. I extracted pathogen.vim into my vim73/autoload folder and then created a bundle folder in gVim home directory(c:\Program Files\Vim). I extracted fugitive.vim into the bundle folder.
Updated the _vimrc file with the execute pathogen#infect() command and restarted gVim, but no luck..
Please help me understand where I am going wrong.
I have found it difficult to get fugitive working on Windows.
I do have a few things for you to try, found using :h plugin.
:echo has("eval")
If this returns 0, your build of vim/gvim does not support plugins.
:echo g:loaded_fugitive
If this returns an error, vim did not spot your plugin during start, check :h plugin for correct directories to install to.
If this returns 1, as mine did and it still did not work, try adding set shellslash to your .vimrc file. This got mine working.

Vim + Pathogen not loading help docs

Currently I use Pathogen to organize my vim plugins. It seems to do this fine and without a hitch but for some reason the helptags are not generated. I don't think my file structure is at fault (although it could be) because as far as I can tell I've set it up correctly, e.g: pathogen.vim is in ~/.vim/autoload and all my plugins are in ~/.vim/bundle
My .vimrc is aliased to the HOME directory so I can quickly find it and open it and the pathogen related part looks like this:
filetype off
call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
call pathogen#helptags()
I feel like I've tried every iteration of this I've found on the internet as well and nothing has been successful. The plugins seem to work just fine every time but I can never get the help docs using the helptags. I'm using Mac OSX 10.6 if that helps.
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.
I had the same problem of not finding the help when updating pathogen - I just had to run the following command to generate the helptags:
:Helptags
If you simply add the line to start pathogen to:
call pathogen#infect()
Helptags
It will generate them on startup and you will have the help as always.
To quote tpope from the vim-pathogen README:
Normally to generate documentation, Vim expects you to run :helptags on each directory with documentation (e.g., :helptags ~/.vim/doc). Provided with pathogen.vim is a :Helptags command that does this on every directory in your 'runtimepath'. If you really want to get crazy, you could even invoke Helptags in your vimrc. I don't like to get crazy.
On 4/13/2011 a :Helptags command was added, which generates help tags along the 'runtimepath'
The preferred way of initializing the plugin is now:
call pathogen#infect()
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on
All this and more in the docs
Take a look at my reply to "Pathogen does not load plugins". I think it might address your problem. Once you follow what I mentioned there, you should get the documentation for your plugins as wanted.

fresh installation of gvim on ubuntu. where should I put my plugins?

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.

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