Installing NERDTree on Windows

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Vitor Py picture Vitor Py · Dec 7, 2010 · Viewed 18.8k times · Source

I'm trying to install NERDTree (the Vim plugin) on Windows 7. I created a .vim directory on my user folder (C:/Users/Username) and extracted the plugin there. I've run :helptags ~.vim\doc and :helptags [full-path]. Closed and reopened Vim.

But when I try:

:NERDTree

the editor says:

E492: Not an editor command: NERDTree

How should I do it?

Answer

Herbert Sitz picture Herbert Sitz · Dec 7, 2010

Windows doesn't use the '.vim' style directories. Instead you should put addons in directory structure branching off a vimfiles directory at one of two places:

c:\users\username\vimfiles\

or

c:\program files (x86)\vim\vimfiles\

For a little more help you can do :h runtimepath, and you could even modify runtimepath to make it work with your .vim directory, but safest route is just to go with the default vimfiles name oon Windows.

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