I had an unrelated problem with vim a while back, that I thought deleting all vim files would help. It did not, but now I have a new problem. Whenever I try to put syntax on, it says:
Error detected while processing /home/jonah/.vimrc:
line 16:
E484: Can't open file /usr/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim
I've tried reinstalling fully, but it doesn't fix the issue.
You still have a broken Vim installation with missing runtime files. The file $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/syntax.vim needs to be there. You should never modify / remove system runtime files in /usr/share/vim yourself! Use your distribution's package manager (you didn't tell which Linux disto you're using) to completely reinstall Vim, and ensure that the file is there.
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I'm trying to run vimtutor on openSUSE Leap 15 1 on WSL2. I get the error E484: Can't open file /usr/share/vim/vim80/tutor/tutor.vim
When I run which vim (or which vimtutor) I get /usr/bin/vim (or /usr/bin/vimtutor) -- is the issue that I have multiple versions of vim installed and when I try vimtutor (which I understand to be a script) it can't access the correct one because of the way my PATH is configured? I've seen similar issues about this posted, but none that seem to deal with this specific issue as it applies to vimtutor.
The vim script is part of vim-data package.
If you looked at the spec file linked here,
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/vim/vim.spec?expand=1
on line 567, the tutor.vim is split into the vim-data package.
It's part of the
%files data
block.
I seem to have to run RopeGenerateAutoimportCache every time I open my python project in vim before RopeAutoImport will work. If I run RopeAutoImport before caching the projects modules I get the following error:
Global name my_func not found!
Is there a way of either generating the cache on each vim startup, or preferably, saving the cache to be reread on startup?
I went back to python-mode (which is the suggested plugin for python) and found a problem in the code for which, at the time writing this, I have a patch to be merged: github.com/klen/python-mode/pull/488
I am no longer seeing this problem with the patched code.
I am trying to make the CoqIDE Vim plugin work on Windows 8.1. When I source the plugin from Vim, I get this error message:
coqtop.opt: command not found.
So I looked up the plugin documentation, and found the part that seems relevent:
"coqtop" should be accessible on PATH. If "coqtop" is not in your PATH, add 'let CoqIDE_coqtop = "/path/to/coqtop"' in your "~/.vimrc".
I'm not sure what this means, but I'm guessing that there is some file or directory named coqtop that must be made visible to vim. So I opened my Coq installation directory and searched for coqtop. The search hits are:
coqtop
coqtop.cmi
coqtop.1
coqtop.byte.1
coqtop.opt.1
The obvious first candidate here is coqtop. When I click it, it opens an interactive Coq console. But when I use the let CoqIDE_coqtop command to link this file to Vim and load the plugin again, I get:
C:Program Files (x86)Coq^Hincoqtop.exe: command not found.
Another thing that looks problematic is the file type. As you can see from the error message above, the coqtop file has an .exe extension, which is specific to MS-DOS and Windows. But I don't think the plugin was written to work with .exe files...
I also tried using all the other search hits as coqtop, to no avail.
Does this mean that the plugin is useless on Windows? If someone can confirm that I'll just give up and use other IDEs. But if possible I'd really, really like to keep using Vim.
I would really like to use easytags, but after following Odding's installation instructions, that is first installing misc and then installing easytags, at startup vim is throwing the "misc is not installed,easytags is broken" error. I am just unzipping them into my vim directory as I have always done with other plugins.. Any suggestions? thanks!
Installation is indeed a simple unzipping of both misc.zip and easytags.zip into the same ~/.vim/ directory.
Check out the :scriptnames command from Vim to see whether all files got successfully sourced. After a manual :runtime autoload/xolox/misc.vim, it should contain entries like:
205: ~/.vim/autoload/xolox/misc.vim
278: ~/.vim/plugin/easytags.vim
If you're still facing problems, please open an issue on the plugin's issue tracker.
I have a problem with installing SuperTab from vimball. I get an error:
E739: Cannot create directory: C:\Users\Pawe<b3>\vimfiles
I guess the problem is the directory name which is C:\Users\Paweł\vimfiles. Is there a way to solve it without changing directory name? Btw: I have set encoding=UTF-8 in my vimrc.
Edit:
The way I install it is so: download .vmb file, open it with vim (using context menu: 'edit with vim') and then I write :so %. And the error occurs.
Using :set verbose=20 I get http://pastebin.com/BLaeLzuU (those are things I found interesting).
And here's the wider story. I was trying to install plugins using vimballs, because I failed running plugins with pathogen (identical case as here: https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/issues/110. In fact my output of :scritpnames is here: http://pastebin.com/YBTBvsvz). To tell you the truth I even tried to copy folder plugin form plugins git repo to my ~\vimfiles. With no success (they are not mentioned in scriptnames). And so I don't have any clue what is going on. Only that output from vimball tells me that it could be the path name. Other then that, I'm hopeless.
Btw: using Windows 8 if that's a deal breaker.
Eventually I have renamed the user name and user folder because the directory name was a problem for other aplications too. Here are the instructions: https://superuser.com/questions/495290/how-to-rename-user-folder-in-windows-8