Can't install vim Tabular Plugin
There are no installation instructions for the tabular plugin. I tried to either copy the files to the correct folders or put under ~/.vim/bundle
to let the pathogen deal with it, in both cases I get the following error messages when I load vim (if any issue is concerned, the message is repeated 6 times).
AddTabularPattern: Vim (runtime): E194: no alternative filename to replace '#': runtime autoload / tableular # ElementFormatPattern.vim
EDIT additional information if it helps diagnose the problem
This is where the files are stored in my folder ~/.vim/bundles/godlygeek-tabular-b7b4d87
(not I obviously didn't show the 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
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IIRC, Tabular comes with an after directory that contains the plugin in its own directory, an autoload directory, a doc directory, and a plugin directory.
So, just copy the contents of those directories in their copies to $ HOME / .vim / (creating any directory that doesn't exist yet) and you're good to go.
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I realize this does not directly answer your question (I was unable to reproduce the error), but you can try using Vundle to manage Vim plugins. It serves a very similar purpose as a pathogen, but with one important difference: it is completely declarative.
If you've used Vundle, installing Tabular will only require you to put this line in your .vimrc:
Bundle 'Tabular'
and then enter the command :BundleInstall
and enter it.
It also supports downloading plugins from GitHub, so you can also use:
Bundle 'godlygeek/tabular'
I switched from pathogen to Vundle a while ago and haven't looked back.
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