Pathogen does not load plugins

Question

Pathogen does not work for me. I am following Adam Lowe's hints posted here (and few more) without any success...

My vimrc:

filetype off
call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()

filetype plugin indent on
set nocompatible
syntax on
set tabstop=2
set smarttab
set shiftwidth=2
set autoindent
set expandtab
set number
colorscheme darkblue

Contents of .vim - ls .vim/*:

.vim/autoload:
pathogen.vim

.vim/bundle:
nerdcommenter/  vim-haml/   vim-surround/
vim-endwise/    vim-rails/  vim-vividchalk/

All plugins in bundle were installed by cloning them from GitHub into bundle directory.

I have tried with pathogen 1.1 and 1.2 and even the latest from GitHub without any result. Vividchalk, Vim-rails and nerdcommenter are not working. I have very little experience with other plugs so I am not sure about them, but I suppose they are not working too.

I am using ArchLinux, vim 7.2.385-1 (not the latest because the latest requires me to install ruby1.9, but it is still 7.2). It has been installed via pacman - ArchLinux package manager. No vim plugins were installed the other way than using pathogen (I have even reinstalled vim package with cleaning /usr/share/vim).

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT:

• /etc/vimrc http://hpaste.org/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=29685#a29685
• /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/archlinux.vim http://hpaste.org/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=29686#a29686

Answer 1

This seems to be common problem caused by the "system" vimrc in some distributions setting filetype on before you set up pathogen. So turning it off and back on again forces plugins to load correctly:

 call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
 filetype off
 syntax on
 filetype plugin indent on

More info here.