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Asked: 2026-06-16T02:31:00+00:00

I know there are multiple posts on this question but I have tried with

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I know there are multiple posts on this question but I have tried with no avail to get this simple part of Vim to work. I would like to get the pathogen plugin to work with Vim. As a few points, I am working on a Windows system. I have downloaded pathogen via github and have created the directories .vim and subdirectories autoload and bundle. My .vimrc is the default created with mkvimrc with:

call pathogen#infect()
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on

added to the bottom. Addressing other postings I have seen:

:set cp? = nocompatible

One area I am guessing is part of the issue is after I run :scriptnames I don’t get the .vim directory. I only get the Vim\.vimrc and vim73 directories. How do I address this? I have been at this a long time and apologize if this is obvious to others here.

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  1. Editorial Team

    On Windows the default location of the local user configuration is $HOME/vimfiles. If your files are in $HOME/.vim then you either need to move them to vimfiles or add .vim to your runtimepath in your .vimrc:

    set runtimepath+=~/.vim

    Also, if Pathogen is in a subdirectory of bundle you will need to run it explicitly from there, since by default Vim will only look in ~/.vim/. Put this in your .vimrc before the pathogen#infect call:

    runtime bundle/pathogen/autoload/pathogen.vim
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