Re: Strange issue with Pathogen

On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 8:50:28 AM UTC-5, Some Developer wrote:
> I'm having a strange issue with Pathogen. I'm trying to keep my Vim
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> configuration and plugins organised as I need to use it on several
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> computers so I decided to create a git repo for it.
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> The following is my .vim folder structure:
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> autoload
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> bundle
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> vimrc_config
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> When I symlink ~/.vimrc to ~/.vim/vimrc_config Pathogen does not load
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> any plugins at all. When I copy ~/.vim/vimrc_config to ~/.vimrc on the
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> other hand it works perfectly.
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> It would be nice if I could fix this issue as that would make it nice
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> and easy to distribute the full config in the Git repo and I would only
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> need to maintain one copy of the file. Since I need to copy the file to
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> make it work if I want to make a change to the file I need to change
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> both which is highly annoying and is error prone.
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> Does anyone have any ideas at all?

I don't have any idea why this would fail. Your method should probably work.

A workaround (which I use, because I use Vim on Windows XP without an easy way to make sym links) is to instead create a VERY simple .vimrc that looks something like this:

source ~/.vim/vimrc_config

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