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Asked: 2026-05-31T18:19:02+00:00

There are no installation instructions for the tabular plugin. I tried either copying the

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There are no installation instructions for the tabular plugin. I tried either copying the files into the correct folders, or putting in under ~/.vim/bundle to let pathogen deal with it, in both cases I get the following error messages when I load up vim (if it’s of any concern, the message is repeated 6 times).

AddTabularPattern: Vim(runtime):E194: No alternate file name to substitute for ‘#’: runtime autoload/tabular#ElementFormatPattern.vim

EDIT some more information if it will help diagnose the problem

Here is where the files are stored in my ~/.vim/bundles/godlygeek-tabular-b7b4d87 folder (not I obviously have not shown all files)

.vim/
├── [drwxrwxr-x]  bundle
│   ├── [drwxrwxr-x]  godlygeek-tabular-b7b4d87
│   │   ├── [drwxrwxr-x]  after
│   │   │   └── [drwxrwxr-x]  plugin
│   │   │       └── [-rw-rw-r--]  TabularMaps.vim
│   │   ├── [drwxrwxr-x]  autoload
│   │   │   └── [-rw-rw-r--]  tabular.vim
│   │   ├── [drwxrwxr-x]  doc
│   │   │   └── [-rw-rw-r--]  Tabular.txt
│   │   └── [drwxrwxr-x]  plugin
│   │       └── [-rw-rw-r--]  Tabular.vim
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  1. Editorial Team

    Could you tell us a bit more about your setup? With a diagram if possible?

    The AddTabularPattern command is called exactly 6 times from after/plugin/TabularMaps.vim and declared in plugin/Tabular.vim. I don’t see why it would trigger the expansion of #, though.

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