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Andrew Ward
Andrew Ward

Reputation: 301

problems installing vim-misc and vim-session plugins on mac / macvim

When I follow github instructions for vim-misc and vim-sessions, after unzipping to /Users/<me>/.vim/misc and /Users/<me>/.vim/vim-session-master, and then restarting macvim, I get

:helptags ~/.vim/doc

E150: Not a directory: ~/.vim/doc

Also tried putting the two folders in /Users/<me>/ (where my .vimrc is) and in the two locations pointer by $VIM and $VIMRUNTIME from within macvim (/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim) all to no avail.

I guess I really don't understand how running the :helptags <whatever> starts up/completes installation of these plug-ins anyway?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 213

Answers (2)

Evgeniy
Evgeniy

Reputation: 806

If you prefer to install plugins manually instead of using one of plugin managers like vim-plug or others then you should add plugin directory to your runtimepath. Place this line to your .vimrc set runtimepath+=/path/to/plugin. I would not recommend to place plugins directly to ~/.vim directory, use sub-folder instead (e.g. /Users/<you>/.vim/plugins).

Upvotes: 0

Luc Hermitte
Luc Hermitte

Reputation: 32946

Before using using a plugin managers, plugins used to go directly into ~/.vim, not into ~/.vim/pluginname. That's when we ran :helptags ~/.vim/doc.

Then we had plugin manager, each with different specific way of doing things. Some even take care of registering the documentation of the plugins installed.

IMO, you'd better find a plugin manager suited to your need and use it. I remember a Q/A on vi.SE, you could start by reading it.

Upvotes: 1

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