How to install Vim plugins on Windows
I'm just getting started with Vim and setting up my environment with some plugins recommended by http://vimawesome.com/ . I downloaded and put the plug.vim file in C:\Program Files\Vim\vim74\autoload
and in. C:\Program Files\Vim\vimfiles\plugin
I put the git master branch in nerdtree-master
and renamed it to nerdtree
. In a file _vimrc
that otherwise works, I put
Plug 'scroloose/nerdtree
and
Plug 'nerdtree
None of these commands worked. And I am getting this error:
Error detected while processing C:\Program Files\Vim\_vimrc:
line 7:
E492: Not an editor command: Plug 'nerdtree'
Error detected while processing
C:\Program Files\Vim\vim74\plugin\nerdtree\lib\nerdtree\path.vim:
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Finally figured out that I forgot to wrap the line Plug 'nerdtree'
with
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'nerdtree'
call plug#end()
Although .vim
this is the path to Linux, Vim or Vim-Plug were able to recognize the path. Then I got an error that Git should be installed. I already have Git installed, so I just added C:\Program Files\Git\bin
to the system environment variable %PATH%
. After restarting Vim, I typed
:PlugInstall
in the Vim editor.
The vim-plug plugin manager got to work and printed:
- Finishing ... Done!
x nerdtree:
Cloning into 'C:\Users\labbedz7\.vim\plugged\nerdtree'...
remote: Invalid username or password.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://git::@github.com/vim-scripts/nerdtree.git/'
Now, Git is not authenticated because the string in Plug 'String'
references to the path of URL-addresses GitHub: http://github.com/String
. Going to the actual path: scrooloose/nerdtree
I managed to start again :PlugInstall
.
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'scrooloose/nerdtree'
call plug#end()
The result was:
Updated. Elapsed time: 5.706874 sec.
[=]
- Finishing ... Done!
- nerdtree: Checking connectivity... done
Then I added these lines to _vimrc:
autocmd StdinReadPre * let s:std_in=1
autocmd VimEnter * if argc() == 0 && !exists("s:std_in") | NERDTree | endif
Nerdtree is now working! It runs on Windows \ System32 and loads a little slower, but it works.
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