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vitaly / dotvim2

modular and easily configurable and extendable `.vim` configuration
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Can't install #2

Closed dan-klasson closed 8 years ago

dan-klasson commented 8 years ago

So I clone this repo. Go into the dotvim2 folder and run make, answer all the prompts and then it says DONE. But when I open Vim, none of the plugins work, nor is the leader key ,.

What am I missing in my install?

vitaly commented 8 years ago

You are missing reading the README ;)

But you are right of course, this is probably not very clear. by default it generates the config in the ./dist directory. You can override it with VIM_DIR=~/.vim make

You are probably not the only one stumbled on this, so I'll try to work something out to fix it.

vitaly commented 8 years ago

latest version will check for non-standard VIM_DIR location and print a warning

dan-klasson commented 8 years ago

Sure it generates the files in the ./dist directory. But how do we get it working?

Running VIM_DIR=~/.vim make in the root rolder gives me make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.. Running the same in the dotvim2 folder gives me the same as explained above.

Please clarify the steps to get it up and running.

ghost commented 8 years ago

Vim probably isn't using the configuration file you're expecting it to. The one that is being generated lives in VIM_DIR/vimrc. You should be able to fix this in one of two ways:

  1. Copy the generated vimrc file to the filename expected by vim (this is typically ~/.vimrc).
  2. Explicitly tell vim to use the generated config file: vim -u VIM_DIR/vimrc
vitaly commented 8 years ago

@cescue @dan-klasson indeed, older versions of vim will only look for ~/.vimrc. Newer versions also look directly for ~/.vim/vimrc. I'll add that to the readme and installation warning.

vitaly commented 8 years ago

done.