Re: OutlookVim 8 and Outlook 2007: "Please install the plugin OutlookVim from www.vim.org to continue" -- SOLVED

On 2013-05-09, Gary Johnson wrote:
> I just downloaded and installed OutlookVim version 8 for use with
> Outlook 2007 running on a Windows XP system. I followed the
> instructions for installing the macro to step 12, the last sub-step
> for Outlook 2007: "Click on the new button in the Quick Access
> Toolbar". The result is a pop-up window titled "Microsoft Office
> Outlook" and containing the message:
>
> OutlookVim: Please install the plugin OutlookVim from
> www.vim.org to continue
>
> I found that this message is displayed by OutlookVim.bas if
>
> exists('g:loaded_outlook')
>
> is false. But, I can open gvim from its Desktop icon, execute
> that command and see that it returns 1.
>
> I found the Wiki page that discusses this error. It suggests that
> the files are installed in the wrong locations. Mine are here:
>
> ~/vimfiles/plugin/OutlookVim.bas
> ~/vimfiles/plugin/outlook.vim
> ~/vimfiles/plugin/outlookvim.js
>
> I tried putting outlook.vim in C:\Program Files\vim\vimfiles\plugin
> in case gvim couldn't find my $HOME. No difference.
>
> I am running Vim 7.3.762.
>
> What can I do to fix this or to troubleshoot it?

I started looking more closely at the Visual Basic code, not that I
know anything about Visual Basic, and saw that it had to have found
an instance of gvim running but that that gvim instance had not
loaded the outlookvim.vim file.

Then it dawned on me that I always have an instance of gvim running
on that machine for keeping notes. That instance had been running
since before I installed the outlookvim.vim plugin, so if
OutlookVim.bas was asking _that_ instance if it had
g:loaded_outlook, the answer would be no.

I exited that gvim instance, made sure no others were running, and
tried again. Voilà!

Sorry for the noise, but maybe this will help someone else.

Regards,
Gary

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