Vim - CtrlP (or pathogen) loads only help pages?

Question

i'm newbie on Vim and now I have problem:

I have installed Pathogen and CtrlP scripts on my vim. But CtrlP doesn't load properly any CtrlP's command or shortcut doesn't work, only help pages work. It says that :CtrlP is not editor command and CtrlP's shortcuts doesn't make anything.

Pathogen.vim is under ~/.vim/autoload/, and CtrlP is in ~/.vim/bundle/ctrlp.vim/

Here's my .gvimrc:

" Enable pathogen
call pathogen#infect()
call pathogen#helptags()

" Remove toolbars and scrollbars
set guioptions-=r " Scrollbars
set guioptions-=T " Toolbar
set guioptions-=m " Menubar

" Enable line numbers, curosorline and set colorscheme
set number
set cursorline
colo wombat

" Reload .gvimrc when saved it
au BufWritePost .gvimrc so %

" Ctrl-S file saving shortcut
nmap <C-S> :w<CR>

And here's how i installed scripts:

$ cd
$ mkdir -p .vim .vim/autoload .vim/bundle
$ curl -Sso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim \
    https://raw.github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/master/autoload/pathogen.vim
$ cd .vim
$ git clone https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim.git bundle/ctrlp.vim
$ gvim ~/.gvimrc

And then I wrote that .gvimcr file, and googled and googled, and came here to ask.

How do you call CtrlP? What works? What doesn't? Please describe every step. — romainl, Feb 27 '13 at 15:04
How do you call CtrlP? What command do you use? Can you do `:h ctrlp`? — romainl, Feb 27 '13 at 15:41
what do "doesn't work" mean? `:CtrlP` is supposed to show you a partial list of the files under your current directory. Do `:cd ~/.vim` then `:CtrlP`. Do you get a list of files contained in `~/.vim`? Do you get a different list? Do you even get a list? — romainl, Feb 27 '13 at 16:09
Nothing happens when I do `:CtrlP` or any command or shortcut of CtrlP script. — Mitja Karhusaari, Feb 27 '13 at 16:13
Then ctrlp is badly installed. Try removing `.vim` from the `ctrlp.vim` directory. — romainl, Feb 27 '13 at 16:27
I don't see anything named `.vim` in `ctrlp.vim` directory. I have deleted whole `.vim` directory and reinstalled ctrlp and pathogen. It doesn't help. — Mitja Karhusaari, Feb 27 '13 at 16:35
according to the snippet in your question, you have cloned ctrlp into a directory named `ctrlp.vim`, try removing the `.vim` from the dir's name. — romainl, Feb 27 '13 at 16:49

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 01 '13 at 21:08

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Yes, finally I solved it!

Move your execute pathogen#infect() and filetype plugin indent on to your ~/.vimrc, I have no idea, but seems that it doesn't work if these lines are in ~/.gvimrc.

Thanks!

answered Mar 01 '13 at 21:08

Mitja Karhusaari

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 28 '13 at 01:41

It looks you have taken wrong step at cloning CtrlP repo. @romainl already pointed that out but you fixes may not be correct.

Here is a revised steps

$ cd
$ mkdir -p .vim/autoload .vim/bundle
$ curl -Sso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim \
    https://raw.github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/master/autoload/pathogen.vim
$ cd .vim/bundle
# Different git command! Do it in root of /bundle!
$ git clone https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim.git

Now go to vim, run :Help to rebuild help files by Pathogen.

Should be okay now.

But now it doesn't load even Pathogen? But it didn't change anything in my `~/.vim`, final result is same as before. — Mitja Karhusaari, Feb 28 '13 at 09:46

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 10 '16 at 06:24

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You probably created the wrong tree directory. Make sure the ctrlp.vim directory is inside bundle directory. The same happened to me because I did git clone of ctrlp plugin repository inside the bundle repository.

answered May 10 '16 at 06:24

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