Vim + Pathogen not loading help docs

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Phil Aquilina picture Phil Aquilina · Aug 7, 2011 · Viewed 10.9k times · Source

Currently I use Pathogen to organize my vim plugins. It seems to do this fine and without a hitch but for some reason the helptags are not generated. I don't think my file structure is at fault (although it could be) because as far as I can tell I've set it up correctly, e.g: pathogen.vim is in ~/.vim/autoload and all my plugins are in ~/.vim/bundle

My .vimrc is aliased to the HOME directory so I can quickly find it and open it and the pathogen related part looks like this:

filetype off
call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles() 
call pathogen#helptags()

I feel like I've tried every iteration of this I've found on the internet as well and nothing has been successful. The plugins seem to work just fine every time but I can never get the help docs using the helptags. I'm using Mac OSX 10.6 if that helps.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.

Answer

BergmannF picture BergmannF · Feb 22, 2012

I had the same problem of not finding the help when updating pathogen - I just had to run the following command to generate the helptags:

:Helptags

If you simply add the line to start pathogen to:

call pathogen#infect()
Helptags

It will generate them on startup and you will have the help as always.

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