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
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I recently got vim and have been trying to install some plugins. I installed vim as a plugin manager. I entered some plugins in the _vimrc file just like you are supposed to.
Example: Plugin 'scroolose/nerdtree'
But, when I did :PluginInstall I got a popup saying "vimrun.exe not found in your $PATH". I found the vimrun.exe file and it was not in the right place so I moved it to the vimfiles folder and then the bundle folder and then the Vundle.vim folder I always got the same popup.
After getting the popup message the plugins never install properly. I always get a bunch of errors as vim tries to process the plugins and then at the end it says "done!". When I try using the plugins it never works and it seems like the plugins never got installed.
If you could also help me with my vim syntax problem, that would be great.(only if you wish to)>
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'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 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.
This question has been asked, in one form or another, a dozen times here, and it blows my mind how not a single one actually addresses how to configure syntastic or jslint such that it actually does what it is supposed to do (its README file is completely useless)
see here
Can anyone provide some step by step instructions, or a link to such instructions. I tried to install jslint and spidermonkey, and I got nowhere.
I managed to get the syntax check to work (thanks to romainl). A few things I learned along the way that may help anyone with a similar problem
To build Javascript Lint look for the README file nested in jsl-x.x.x/src/README.html
The build instructions are gmake -f Makefile.ref but gmake is the same thing as make so issue the command sudo ln -s /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake
jsl will now be found in jsl-0.3.0/src/Linux_All_DBG.OBJ/jsl. To make it generally accessible do something like: ln -s /whatever/jsl-0.3.0/src/Linux_All_DBG.OBJ /home/ForestGump/bin/jsl. More information here
To check that jsl actually works find a test file ( here) then issue the command jsl -process test.js. It should list all the errors.
To customize your command line, add this to your vimrc file set statusline=%{SyntasticStatuslineFlag()}
What did you do? What works and what doesn't? Do you get error messages?
Here is what I did:
Downloaded the jsl sources from the JavaScript Lint site.
Built jsl and moved it somewhere in my $PATH.
Checked if it worked by running it against a random .js file
Downloaded and installed Syntastic as a Pathogen bundle.
Typed :helptags /path/to/syntastic/doc because for some reason Pathogen's automatic help tags generation doesn't work for me.
Read Syntastic's documentation: :help syntastic.
Steps 1 to 5 didn't take more than 3 or 4 minutes, maybe less.
Step 6 is obligatory, whatever new tool you try. RTFM.
I didn't have to configure anything beside these 3 lines in my .vimrc (and I believe the third is redundant):
let g:syntastic_auto_loc_list=1
let g:syntastic_disabled_filetypes=['html']
let g:syntastic_enable_signs=1
and customizing my statusline a bit with:
%{SyntasticStatuslineFlag()}
EDIT
Here is my statusline:
set statusline=%<\ %n:%f\ %m%r%y%{SyntasticStatuslineFlag()}%=line:\ %l\ of\ %L,\ col:\ %c%V,\ win:\ %{WindowNumber()}\
Don't copy it verbatim or you'll get some errors due to the function call at the end. There is a paragraph about that in syntastic's help.
END EDIT
After all that, 10 or 12 minutes if you count reading the documentation, I have a very helpful location list and signs poping up each time I save a .js file with syntax errors.
Setup vundle according to its README.
Put this into your .vimrc:
Bundle 'scrooloose/syntastic'
Then enter this command in vim:
:BundleInstall
That's it.
EDIT: Vundle has changed its syntax since I originally wrote this. Nowadays, you use
Plugin 'scrooloose/syntastic'
and then enter
:PluginInstall