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puk
puk

Reputation: 16752

Can't install vim Tabular Plugin

There are no installation instructions for the tabular plugin. I tried either copying the files into the correct folders, or putting in under ~/.vim/bundle to let pathogen deal with it, in both cases I get the following error messages when I load up vim (if it's of any concern, the message is repeated 6 times).

AddTabularPattern: Vim(runtime):E194: No alternate file name to substitute for '#': runtime autoload/tabular#ElementFormatPattern.vim

EDIT some more information if it will help diagnose the problem

Here is where the files are stored in my ~/.vim/bundles/godlygeek-tabular-b7b4d87 folder (not I obviously have not shown all files)

.vim/
├── [drwxrwxr-x]  bundle
│   ├── [drwxrwxr-x]  godlygeek-tabular-b7b4d87
│   │   ├── [drwxrwxr-x]  after
│   │   │   └── [drwxrwxr-x]  plugin
│   │   │       └── [-rw-rw-r--]  TabularMaps.vim
│   │   ├── [drwxrwxr-x]  autoload
│   │   │   └── [-rw-rw-r--]  tabular.vim
│   │   ├── [drwxrwxr-x]  doc
│   │   │   └── [-rw-rw-r--]  Tabular.txt
│   │   └── [drwxrwxr-x]  plugin
│   │       └── [-rw-rw-r--]  Tabular.vim

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2204

Answers (3)

phildobbin
phildobbin

Reputation: 834

IIRC, Tabular comes with an after directory which contains a plugin in its own directory, an autoload directory, a doc directory & a plugin directory.

So just copy the contents of those directories to their counterparts in $HOME/.vim/ (making any directory that does not already exist) & you're good to go.

Upvotes: 1

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196456

Could you tell us a bit more about your setup? With a diagram if possible?

The AddTabularPattern command is called exactly 6 times from after/plugin/TabularMaps.vim and declared in plugin/Tabular.vim. I don't see why it would trigger the expansion of #, though.

Upvotes: 1

psyho
psyho

Reputation: 7212

I realize that this does not answer your question directly (I could not replicate the error), but you could try using Vundle to manage your Vim plugins. It serves a very similar purpose as pathogen, but with one important difference: it's entirely declarative.

If you used Vundle, installing Tabular would require you only to put this line into your .vimrc:

Bundle 'Tabular'

and then issue :BundleInstall command and that's it.

It also supports downloading the plugins from GitHub, so alternatively you could use:

Bundle 'godlygeek/tabular'

I have switched from pathogen to Vundle a while ago and haven't looked back.

Upvotes: 0

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