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Original question
Pathogen bundles not being loaded.
I'm running Kali Linux and I've set up my .vimrc in the recommended way 

set nocompatible

execute pathogen#infect('~/.vim/bundle/{}')

filetype on
filetype plugin on
filetype plugin indent on

syntax enable
colorscheme solarized

but this gives me errors for any of the bundles I have installed (e.g. E492: Not an editor command: NERDTree or E185: Cannot find colorscheme 'solarized')

Running the following commands once vim has launched, shows that the directory is correct.

echo pathogen#glob_directories("~/.vim/bundle/*") ---> all of my bundles are returned

Is there anything else I'm missing?

Update
I have all of my dotfiles in a git repo. But when I run a git add, only the directories of the bundles are added but none of the files themselves. How do I include pathogen bundles in my "dotfiles" repo?

Ben
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  • Why not simply `execute pathogen#infect()`? – romainl Dec 17 '16 at 10:52
  • @romainl I tried that initially but added in the path to confirm I was looking at the same place with `pathogen#glob_directories("~/.vim/bundle/*")` – Ben Dec 17 '16 at 18:55

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This ended up being a git issue. Because I have my dotfiles in a git repo, when I installed the bundles I should have used:

git submodule init
git submodule add https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree.git ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree
git submodule add --depth=1 https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic.git ~/.vim/bundle/syntastic
...

As opposed to 

git clone https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree.git ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree
...

After running a pull on a different machine. I needed to install these submodules

git submodule init
git submodule update

note

I had to tinker with the file ~/.gitmodules to get my paths set to something that could be used under different usernames and systems

Ben
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