Windows install docs didn't work for me

[steveellis]

I'm on Windows 10 with Vim 74. Followed the instructions here

https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim/wiki/Vundle-for-Windows

in particular these lines

set rtp+=%HOME%/vimfiles/bundle/Vundle.vim/
call vundle#begin('%USERPROFILE%/vimfiles/bundle/')

But when I ran :PluginInstall I got

So just for fun I changed the above 2 lines to the following

set rtp+=~/vimfiles/bundle/Vundle.vim/
call vundle#begin('~/vimfiles/bundle/')

and I got the intended results. My plugins install to /vimfiles/bundle. Curiouser still, doing

call vundle#begin()

Also works, but here the plugins go to a .vim directory in home. Which I suppose should also be fine but from what I can tell the expectation is "vimfiles" and "_vimrc" in windows land. But I have a bunch of "." directories in home from other stuff. So, hmm.

Not sure how to explain all except that Vundle is smart enough to parse a tilde into something like %home%. Maybe if this is true the docs should be updated, which I'm happy to do if others think this is a real issue and not something weird with me.

For what it's worth I'm not doing cygwin, just a standard install of windows.

[dcfix]

Holy cow - this was driving me crazy! Thanks for the tip @steveellis! I'm running windows 10 anniversary edition, and I've been getting the same errors trying to install for gvim. Are you running anniversary edition as well? It was working just fine for me in regular win10 enterprise. I can spin up a VM with a previous version of Win10 to test if it would be helpful.

[steveellis]

Glad it helped you!

winver says I have version 1511 OS Build 10586.545.

But dunno that seems like a rabbithole perhaps that I wouldn't want to go down. The windows version i mean. Think it is just the "~" is being perhaps translated by vundle into something that works on windows. But then again maybe this is part of microsoft's open source initiative: make the tilde be "home" in windows 10 ... but don't tell anyone. Wouldn't that be funny?

Or maybe, just maybe my operating system has become conscious and felt ashamed that it wasn't linux and that "~" wasn't home. :)

[pepi55]

Use $USERPROFILE instead of %USERPROFILE% when following the windows instructions.