How to install vim plug ?

[suvirbhargav]

Hi,

I added the setup file to auto load folder. Now i'm getting the error: Not an editor command: PlugInstall
As i see, you do call : plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
But my vim folder has no plugged directory. Do i need to install anything else to get the plug.

Regards
Suvir

[vheon]

I added the setup file to auto load folder.

I don't understand this part.

For the plugged directory: vim-plug will create it for you if it doesn't exists.

[suvirbhargav]

i meant i did the following steps:
Step 1:
mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

Step 2: Added the following to my vimrc (copied from vimplug github page)

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')

" Make sure you use single quotes
Plug 'junegunn/seoul256.vim'
Plug 'junegunn/vim-easy-align'

" On-demand loading
Plug 'scrooloose/nerdtree', { 'on':  'NERDTreeToggle' }
Plug 'tpope/vim-fireplace', { 'for': 'clojure' }

" Using git URL
Plug 'https://github.com/junegunn/vim-github-dashboard.git'

" Plugin options
Plug 'nsf/gocode', { 'tag': 'go.weekly.2012-03-13', 'rtp': 'vim' }

" Plugin outside ~/.vim/plugged with post-update hook
Plug 'junegunn/fzf', { 'dir': '~/.fzf', 'do': 'yes \| ./install' }

" Unmanaged plugin (manually installed and updated)
Plug '~/my-prototype-plugin'

call plug#end()

Step 3: i opened the vim and executed the command : PlugInstall and i got the error Not an editor command: PlugInstall

[junegunn]

1. Make sure plug.vim file is located in ~/.vim/autoload directory.
2. You are not supposed to copy/paste the whole example to your .vimrc. It's just some examples to show the syntax of vim-plug.
3. Does :call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged') give you an error?

[suvirbhargav]

Yes, Checked step 1.
For the step 2., although i did copy/paste, it is just to get the setup up and running.

I did your step 3. No error, but nothing happens. Here is the screenshot.

This is how my .vim looks like

Latitude-E5520:~/.vim$ ls -> autoload bundle conque_2.3 syntax

[suvirbhargav]

Very nice plugin manager there!
I got it working. I think, yesterday the commands in .vimrc wasn't saved, so nothing worked. My bad. Now I also tested both PlugInstall and PlugUpdate. Works fine. Only YouCompleteme fails, all else pass. Here is the output.

Thanks!

[junegunn]

Okay, looks like the post-update hook of YCM failed for some reason, you might want to manually execute the command to see what is going on.

[kingluddite]

I wasted two hours on this and could not figure it out. I'm embarrassed to share but hope my ignorance will save others time. I switched from Vundle to Plug and when I was trying to install plugins I was typing :PluginInstall instead of :PlugInstall

Shameful in Shangrila

[benfranklin79]

@kingluddite Just to make you feel better I did something similar when switching from Vundle to Plug. I didn't spend two hours but long enough to feel some degree of shame.

[kingluddite]

@benfranklin79 Misery loves company. Thanks for electricity.

[rebuilt]

I was also having trouble installing on a new machine. The :PlugInstall command did not work. I corrected the issue by installing git before running :PlugInstall.

[aseemxandr]

I wasted two hours on this and could not figure it out. I'm embarrassed to share but hope my ignorance will save others time. I switched from Vundle to Plug and when I was trying to install plugins I was typing :PluginInstall instead of :PlugInstall

Shameful in Shangrila

Do I type PlugInstall in VIM or in terminal
In Vim is get error not an editor command : PlugInstall
In terminal I get error PlugInstall: command not found

[janlazo]

I wasted two hours on this and could not figure it out. I'm embarrassed to share but hope my ignorance will save others time. I switched from Vundle to Plug and when I was trying to install plugins I was typing :PluginInstall instead of :PlugInstall
Shameful in Shangrila

Do I type PlugInstall in VIM or in terminal
In Vim is get error not an editor command : PlugInstall
In terminal I get error PlugInstall: command not found

@aseemxandr You do not have autoload/ in your ~/.vim or you did not put download https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/raw/master/plug.vim and put it in ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim or you silenced errors from vim-plug because plug#begin() will not define :PlugInstall command if git is missing or your Vim build is missing some features. If vim-plug is installed correctly and your environment and Vim build are all good, then you can run PlugInstall after call plug#end().

[harvey-wei]

I wasted two hours on this and could not figure it out. I'm embarrassed to share but hope my ignorance will save others time. I switched from Vundle to Plug and when I was trying to install plugins I was typing :PluginInstall instead of :PlugInstall
Shameful in Shangrila

Do I type PlugInstall in VIM or in terminal
In Vim is get error not an editor command : PlugInstall
In terminal I get error PlugInstall: command not found

@aseemxandr You do not have autoload/ in your ~/.vim or you did not put download https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/raw/master/plug.vim and put it in ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim or you silenced errors from vim-plug because plug#begin() will not define :PlugInstall command if git is missing or your Vim build is missing some features. If vim-plug is installed correctly and your environment and Vim build are all good, then you can run PlugInstall after call plug#end().

Thanks a lot ! Installing git fixes this issue!

[chrisseanhayes]

WINDOWS USERS
whenever you see a file ref to ~/.vim change it to ~/vimfiles
vim is looking for these file in a different folder when on Windows

[ppdouble]

I was trying to install wakatime/vim-wakatime using vim-plugin.

Download and install with:
curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
Now plug.vim was installed in ~/.vim/autoload/ folder.

1. Modify ~/.vimrc with:

""""""""
" for vim-plug plugin manager
call plug#begin()
Plug 'wakatime/vim-wakatime'
call plug#end()

2. In vim, run :so ~/.vimrc
3. Re-open vim with proxy like ALL_PROXY=socks5://127.0.0.1:1080 vim
4. run :PlugInstall in vim
   And vim-waktime is installed in ~/.vim/plugged folder.