I'm brand new to Vim and just trying to get setup with vim-airline. I'm using Pathogen to install and have followed the instructions provided. vim-airline is successfully cloned in ~/.vim/bundle/vim-airline.
When I try to add the required let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1 instruction to my ~/.vimrc file I get the following error from the console when trying to source it:
bad math expression: ':' without '?'
I'm running vim 8.0.134 on macOS Sierra with zsh and oh-my-zsh.
Any ideas why this error is being thrown and how I can get around it?
It looks like you tried to run $ source ~/.vimrc in the shell?
I think you want to reload your vimrc file from within vim:
:source ~/.vimrc
Maybe you confused this with running $ source ~/.zshrc from the shell.
I'm trying to use the CoqIDE for vim plugin I found on this page.
I put the coq_IDE.vim file in ~/.vim/ftplugin folder. My current .vimrc file is:
set showcmd
set number
imap hl <Esc>
filetype plugin on
But when I start vim CoqIDE doesn't load automatically (I see no change whatsoever compared to normal vim, so I don't think it did). And when I try to load it manually by the command :source coq_IDE.vim, I get the following error message:
E484: Can't open file coq_IDE.vim
What could be the source of this error?
Here are some additional information that might be relevant:
1) I am running Ubuntu 14.04.
2) I checked that :version in vim shows +perl.
2) I am running vim from terminal, not gvim.
3) I tried removing and reinstalling different versions of vim (vim, vim-gtk, vim-gnome)
4) The CoqIDE installation guide says that coqtop.opt should be accessible via the PATH variable. Since I'm not even sure what this means, this might be the problem here, but that seems unlikely. From what I understand vim is getting errors when trying to read coq_IDE.vim, so it's not even getting to the part where it's looking for coqtop.opt.
5) I have CoqIDE installed from Ubuntu Software Center.
6) With :echo &runtimepath I get: ~/.vim,/var/lib/vim/addons,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/vim74,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after,/var/lib/vim/addons/after,~/.vim/after
The instructions are bad.
Put the file in ~/.vim/plugin not ~/.vim/ftplugin
The file layout should look exactly like the file layout found in this mirror for the plugin. https://github.com/vim-scripts/CoqIDE. (Maybe take a look at pathogen or vundle,).
The reason the :source coq_IDE.vim fails is vim is looking for the file coq_IDE.vim in the current directory and it isn't there. Use the full path to file if you are going to source it manually. (You shouldn't need to though.)
I'm trying to get autocompletion for OCaml. I like using Vim and I found this plugin:
https://github.com/the-lambda-church/merlin
I installed it using OPAM and added the required lines to load it to my .vimrc
I made sure that OPAM bin folder (which contains ocamlmerlin) is in my .profile file and
checked that I can access it from the terminal and for vim I printed the PATH variable using "Ctrl-r =$PATH" and it shows that it contains OPAM bin folder.
It still doesn't work, I have no clue what else to do to make it work. I get syntax highlighting but that exists without merlin anyway. I want autocompletion to work.
If I press Ctrl-N to show completion suggestion I get "normal" vim completion which is basically just a list of words that are mentioned in the document.
Checking the startup log file, I can see that Vim did indeed load merlin:
chdir(/home/incraved/.opam/system/share/ocamlmerlin/vim/plugin)
fchdir() to previous dir
sourcing "/home/incraved/.opam/system/share/ocamlmerlin/vim/plugin/merlin.vim"
finished sourcing /home/incraved/.opam/system/share/ocamlmerlin/vim/plugin/merlin.vim
Searching for "/home/incraved/.opam/system/share/ocamlmerlin/vimbufsync/plugin/**/*.vim"
Any ideas?
Ctrl-N is the default completion; its sources are configured by the 'complete' option, but cannot include custom sources.
The Merlin plugin uses Omni completion, which is triggered with Ctrl-X Ctrl-O; see :help compl-omni.
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.
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#runtime_append_all_bundles()
filetype plugin indent on
set nocompatible
syntax on
set tabstop=2
set smarttab
set shiftwidth=2
set autoindent
set expandtab
set number
colorscheme darkblue
Contents of .vim - ls .vim/*:
.vim/autoload:
pathogen.vim
.vim/bundle:
nerdcommenter/ vim-haml/ vim-surround/
vim-endwise/ vim-rails/ vim-vividchalk/
All plugins in bundle were installed by cloning them from GitHub into bundle directory.
I have tried with pathogen 1.1 and 1.2 and even the latest from GitHub without any result. Vividchalk, Vim-rails and nerdcommenter are not working. I have very little experience with other plugs so I am not sure about them, but I suppose they are not working too.
I am using ArchLinux, vim 7.2.385-1 (not the latest because the latest requires me to install ruby1.9, but it is still 7.2). It has been installed via pacman - ArchLinux package manager. No vim plugins were installed the other way than using pathogen (I have even reinstalled vim package with cleaning /usr/share/vim).
What am I doing wrong?
EDIT:
/etc/vimrc http://hpaste.org/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=29685#a29685
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/archlinux.vim http://hpaste.org/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=29686#a29686
This seems to be common problem caused by the "system" vimrc in some distributions setting filetype on before you set up pathogen. So turning it off and back on again forces plugins to load correctly:
call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
filetype off
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on
More info here.
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.
I've had problems loading particular plugins: specifically, plugins with a plugin subdirectory. For example, on a fresh MacVim install, a plugin in ~/.vim/bundle/surround/plugin/surround.vim wasn't being loaded, even though ~/.vim/bundle/surround appeared in the output of :scriptnames.
The problem was that I was loading Pathogen in .gvimrc, not .vimrc. For whatever reason, stuff in .vim/bundle/*/plugin subdirectories won't load if you do that, so do it in .vimrc!
I've opened an issue on github—I don't know if it can be made to work even if it loads from .gvimrc, but there should at least be some sort of warning in the documentation for idiots like me.
If your .vim is based on a git repo and submodules, DO REMEMBER to run git submodule init and git submodule update after cloning the repo. i.e.
git submodule init
git submodule update
I had the same error and tried all of the above, but it didn't work. Until I initialized and updated the git submodules.
Hope this helps for anyone who has a similar error.
Maybe Arch's default vimrc (possibly /etc/vim/vimrc) doesn't play well with Pathogen. Try starting Vim without loading config files:
vim -u NONE
and then load your vimrc from within vim:
:so ~/.vimrc
Do the plugins work then?
Fixed by (mattn & tpope) after raising issue via github
set nocp
call pathogen#infect()
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on
call pathogen#infect()
see https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/issues/50#issuecomment-3137909
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.
filetype off
call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
call pathogen#helptags()
Try to check your runtime path using command:
:set runtimepath?
First entry should be something like ~/.vim.
My problem with not loading plugins/pathogen was that i placed my vim environment in ~/.dotfiles/vim where my vimrc and rest of the stuff (plugins etc.) lives.
After creating symlink to ~/.dotfiles/vim/vimrc in ~/.vimrc i forgot to make second symlink ~/.vim -> ~/.dotfiles/vim/ which caused vim to be confused cause he was looking for stuff in ~/.vim (default). After i made proper symlink everything poped in right place.
I hope it will help someone who forgot about second symlink like I did ;-)
Instead of call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles(), I used call pathogen#infect('~/.vim/bundle') and it worked for me.
I was having the same problem with Ubuntu. The log was:
linha 4: executando "/usr/share/vim/vim73/ftoff.vim"
Erro detectado ao processar /usr/share/vim/vim73/ftoff.vim:
linha 11:
E216: Grupo ou evento inexistente: filetypedetect *
fim da execução de /usr/share/vim/vim73/ftoff.vim
The solution was to add "\n"s at the end from file /usr/share/vim/vim73/ftoff.vim to execute it properly.
set nocp
call pathogen#infect()
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on
call pathogen#infect()
The above helped me fix the issue, can't leave a comment on other peoples however thank you for posting the code above.
I have it in mine as:
silent! call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
After spending waaaay too long trying to solve this problem with nerd-commenter/pathogen, I broke down and just used Debian's OS provided nerd-commenter plugin:
vim-addons install nerd-commenter
If you're on Debian and need to get back to work, try it out. You probably need "vim-addon-manager" and "vim-scripts" packages installed from apt if you don't have it already.
In my case I cloned to a folder ~/dotfiles but vun looks for a folder ~/.vim, as a result he carried no plugins or color schemes to solve the problem I did this:
ln -s ~/.dotfiles ~/.vim
I had the same problem. I tried every possible combination.
Finally I found that if I use mksession to save my Vim workspace and have it load on Vim startup, it made pathogen not load new plugins I put into the bundle folder.
After installing a new plugin I now always delete my session file and start Vim fresh and every plugin loads fine.
filetype off
set nocompatible
set laststatus=2
execute pathogen#infect()
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on
For the sake of completion I'll add my solution for this problem.
I just renamed my ~/.gvimrc file to ~/.vimrc, and all my problems were solved. I literally copied my .vim and my .gvimrc from linux and did this change and everything works as expected.
I was facing the same issue, finally after lot of google and tweaking the vimrc file, found the solution. Hope the following code snippet would resolve the issue.
set nocp
source /home/ameet/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim "location of my pathogen.vim
call pathogen#infect()
call pathogen#helptags()
i had the same problem , solved by copying this file into ~/.vim/autoload:
https://github.com/sontek/dotfiles/blob/master/_vim/autoload/pathogen.vim