Vim Pathogen won't load - E117: Unknown function: pathogen#infect
pathogen, vim
Solution
Since vividchalk can't load either, I'd guess vim can't access your .vim.
Are you on OS X? Are you using MacVim?
You may have incorrectly created your ~/.vim. I would do this (with absolute paths):
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vim ~/.vim
You could try this:
mkdir ~/vim_archive
mv ~/.*vim* ~/vim_archive/.
mkdir -p ~/.vim/colors
cp ~/vim_archive/.vim/colors/vividchalk.vim ~/.vim/colors/.
echo colorscheme vividchalk > ~/.vimrc
If that successfully loads, then vim is correctly reading your vimrc and .vim. Then try it with a linked folder. If that works, then add pathogen and see if it loads.
Problem
This should be a very straightforward problem. I have a simple `.vimrc` file. It is 15 lines in its entirety: ``` filetype off set nocompatible call pathogen#infect() syntax on filetype plugin indent on set hlsearch set colorcolumn=79 set number set list set expandtab set tabstop=4 set softtabstop=4 colorscheme vividchalk ``` When I try to start vim, though, I get the following error message: ``` Error detected while processing /Users/Jon/.vimrc: line 3: E117: Unknown function: pathogen#infect line 15: E185: Cannot find color scheme 'vividchalk' ``` I have worked quite a while at solving this, including looking here: Vim: Pathogen not loading and here: Pathogen does not load plugins and here: https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/issues/50 I am storing all my vim-related files in a `~/.dotfiles/vim/` directory and have symlinked `.vimrc` and `.gvimrc` and `.vim/`from my home directory. I have three plugins I am trying to load: command-t, commentary, and fugitive. These plugins are all git submodules. The directory structure is as follows: ``` .dotfiles/ ├──vim/ ├── autoload/ │ └── pathogen.vim ├── bundle/ │ ├── command-t/ │ ├── commentary/ │ └── fugitive/ ├── colors/ │ ├── distinguished.vim │ └── vividchalk.vim ├── ftdetect/ │ ├── markdown.vim │ └── vim.vim ├── gvimrc ├── snippets/ │ └── markdown.snippets ├── syntax/ │ ├── markdown.vim │ └── python.vim ├── test.txt └── vimrc ```