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Asked: 2026-06-06T00:40:08+00:00

I installed Vim in Fedora 16 with this command: $ yum -y install vim-enhanced

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I installed Vim in Fedora 16 with this command:

$ yum -y install vim-enhanced

Vim works just fine, but now I wanted to add the NERD Commenter and NERD Tree plugins. In the home directory I cant find neither .vim/ nor .vimrc. So I went ahead and created those but still it’s not picking it up.

How do you install Vim plugins in Fedora?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have to create ~/.vimrc and ~/.vim/ yourself.

    After that simply follow each plugin’s installation instructions.

    For NERDTree (from the plugin’s page):

    Unzip the archive into your ~/.vim directory. 
That should put NERD_tree.vim in ~/.vim/plugin and NERD_tree.txt in ~/.vim/doc. 
Run :helptags. 
Go :help NERD_tree.txt for the help page.

    After all that, you are supposed to end up with this structure:

    ~/.vim/doc/NERD_tree.txt
~/.vim/doc/tags
~/.vim/nerdtree_plugin/exec_menuitem.vim
~/.vim/nerdtree_plugin/fs_menu.vim
~/.vim/plugin/NERD_tree.vim
~/.vim/syntax/nerdtree.vim

    Which is all you need to use NERDTree:

    :NERDTree<CR>

    Did you try the “built-in” netrw, invoked with :Ex (:Hex,:Sex,:Vex…), before deciding to install NERDTree?

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