vim-plug's "PlugInstall" not an editor command

[esn89]

I honestly am not sure whether to post this on vim-plug or here. So apologies in advance.

So right now, I just placed plug.vim in ~/.config/autoload and tried to run :PlugInstall from nvim and the "this is not an editor command" keeps poppin' up.

I have had success with vim-plug in the past on my older machines with neovim, so that is what prompted me to post here. Anyone else have the same problem?

[noahfrederick]

~/.config/autoload

You are missing the nvim directory in that path: ~/.config/nvim/autoload/.

[esn89]

hmm, i just tried it with the autoload dir and that didn't seem to work.

[fmoralesc]

Did you initialize vim-plug in the init.vim file pointing it at the correct path? (:call plug#begin('~/.config/nvim')) The command only gets created then.

[noahfrederick]

@esn89 In any case, this is almost certainly user error. You should refer to vim-plug's usage instructions.

Note that the :PlugInstall command will not be available until the autoload script is sourced, which occurs when you source it manually, or more usually, call one of the autoloaded functions, such as plug#begin() in your init.vim.

[upgradeQ]

Also if someone like me stuck with no commands on neovim at all , it's because new Plug manager using different syntax , i hope it will save someones time Plug 'scrooloose/nerdtree', { 'on': 'NERDTreeToggle' }

[danschumann]

Make sure git is installed if you use the auto-install script.

[slalbertojesus]

If you are on manjaro, make sure to edit the .vimrc in this location:
/home/yourusername/.vim/vimrc

[darklaser28]

Did you initialize vim-plug in the init.vim file pointing it at the correct path? (:call plug#begin('~/.config/nvim')) The command only gets created then.

Why don't I have the nvim folder in my .config file ?

[abd96]

Did you initialize vim-plug in the init.vim file pointing it at the correct path? (:call plug#begin('~/.config/nvim')) The command only gets created then.

Why don't I have the nvim folder in my .config file ?

You may create it yourself!

[missing-atabey]

Did you initialize vim-plug in the init.vim file pointing it at the correct path? (:call plug#begin('~/.config/nvim')) The command only gets created then.

Also, for anyone else that ends up dealing with this, (since I had this issue) if you make the init.vim file, make sure that it is ".vim" format when its first created. I attempted to create a formatless file, and a txt file with the lines needed inside so that I could then add the ".vim", and it failed both times because the data wasn't formatted properly as a result of the change in file extension.

[ronnycoding]

run :checkhealth that works for me to figure out what I've missed on my computer