无法在Ubuntu Trusty64上加载Vim插件

Question

I'm using Vagrant and VirtualBox to set-up and provision a Ubuntu Trusty machine. During the provisioning stage I'm downloading my dotfiles (which include my .vimrc and .tmux.conf files as well as my .vim folder).

My .tmux.conf works fine but I discovered that my .vimrc was failing to load my plugins (I use the Pathogen plugin manager) and so when I start Vim I see errors about certain colour schemes not being found (because the particular colour scheme is loaded via a plugin) and also some other plugin related settings within my .vimrc are causing errors to be displayed.

Below is my Vagrantfile (not that it's relevant but in case you're wondering what box I'm using to up the Linux instance from):

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "172.17.8.100"
  config.vm.synced_folder "./Application", "/www", create: true

  config.vm.provision "shell" do |s|
    s.privileged = true
    s.path = "provision.sh"
  end

  config.ssh.forward_agent = true
  config.ssh.forward_x11 = true
end

The full provisioning script can be viewed here: https://github.com/Integralist/Linux-and-Docker-Development-Environment/blob/master/provision.sh but the important section (ie the git cloning of my dotfiles and checking out the relevant linux branch) is as follows:

dotfiles_location=/home/vagrant/dotfiles
git clone https://github.com/Integralist/dotfiles.git $dotfiles_location
cd $dotfiles_location && git fetch && git checkout linux
shopt -s extglob
mv !(.|..|.git|README.md) ..

In the above snippet I'm moving all the dotfiles (ie .vimrc , .vim and .tmux.conf ) into /home/vagrant/ (note: the files specified inside the parentheses aren't being moved though, like the .git folder).

When I execute vim I get the following error:

Error detected while processing /home/vagrant/.vimrc:
line  125:
E185: Cannot find color scheme 'Tomorrow-Night'

And then within Vim it errors again:

Error detected while processing VimEnter Auto commands for "*":
E492: Not an editor command: RainbowParenthesesToggle

I've looked at other Linux related issues on the Pathogen repo but I can't determine where the problem is coming from?

Executing :scriptnames returns:

  1: /usr/share/vim/vimrc
  2: /usr/share/vim/vim74/debian.vim
  3: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/syntax.vim
  4: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/synload.vim
  5: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/syncolor.vim
  6: /usr/share/vim/vim74/filetype.vim
  7: ~/.vimrc
  8: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/nosyntax.vim
  9: ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim
 10: /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftoff.vim
 11: /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin.vim
 12: /usr/share/vim/vim74/indent.vim
 13: ~/.vim/plugin/BufOnly.vim
 14: ~/.vim/plugin/scratch.vim
 15: ~/.vim/bundle/ZoomWin/plugin/ZoomWinPlugin.vim
 16: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/getscriptPlugin.vim
 17: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/gzip.vim
 18: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/matchparen.vim
 19: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim
 20: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/rrhelper.vim
 21: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/spellfile.vim
 22: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/tarPlugin.vim
 23: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/tohtml.vim
 24: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/vimballPlugin.vim
 25: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/zipPlugin.vim

Executing :set rtp returns:

runtimepath=
~/.vim,
/var/lib/vim/addons,
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,
/usr/share/vim/vim74,
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after,
/var/lib/vim/addons/after,
~/.vim/after

Executing :set compatible? returns nocompatible

Executing :set loadplugins? returns loadplugins

Looking at the :scriptnames output it seems like maybe the .vimrc is being loaded before the pathogen file? But if that's the case I'm not sure how to resolve that so it's always loaded first? I spoke with Tim Pope (author of Pathogen) on GitHub about it and he suggested:

"It's your vimrc's job to load pathogen.vim so the ordering is correct. Confirm how you're invoking pathogen and the directory structure of your Vim directory"

I then replied with the following clarification (Note: I heard nothing back, hence I'm now here looking for help)...

My full dotfile structure can be seen here: https://github.com/Integralist/dotfiles (technically it's the linux branch).

Specifically I call it here: https://github.com/Integralist/dotfiles/blob/linux/.vimrc#L119-L120

Note: these dotfiles work fine on my Mac and it's only since loading them on a Linux machine have I noticed an issue with plugins not being loaded by Pathogen.

The top level tree structure can be seen below...

.
├── .agignore
├── .bashrc
├── .gitconfig
├── .gitignore_global
├── .irssi
├── .tmux.conf
├── .vim
│   ├── .netrwhist
│   ├── autoload
│   │   └── pathogen.vim
│   ├── bundle
│   │   ├── CSApprox
│   │   ├── Dockerfile.vim
│   │   ├── Gist.vim
│   │   ├── Tabmerge
│   │   ├── ZoomWin
│   │   ├── ack.vim
│   │   ├── camelcasemotion
│   │   ├── ctrlp.vim
│   │   ├── emmet-vim
│   │   ├── gruvbox
│   │   ├── html5.vim
│   │   ├── nerdtree
│   │   ├── rainbow_parentheses.vim
│   │   ├── supertab
│   │   ├── syntastic
│   │   ├── tabular
│   │   ├── targets.vim
│   │   ├── textutil.vim
│   │   ├── tomorrow-night-vim
│   │   ├── vim-airline
│   │   ├── vim-bookmarks
│   │   ├── vim-choosewin
│   │   ├── vim-clojure-highlight
│   │   ├── vim-clojure-static
│   │   ├── vim-colors-pencil
│   │   ├── vim-commentary
│   │   ├── vim-cucumber
│   │   ├── vim-dispatch
│   │   ├── vim-endwise
│   │   ├── vim-fireplace
│   │   ├── vim-fugitive
│   │   ├── vim-gitgutter
│   │   ├── vim-haml
│   │   ├── vim-leiningen
│   │   ├── vim-localrc
│   │   ├── vim-markdown
│   │   ├── vim-node
│   │   ├── vim-polyglot
│   │   ├── vim-repeat
│   │   ├── vim-ruby
│   │   ├── vim-sexp
│   │   ├── vim-sexp-mappings-for-regular-people
│   │   ├── vim-surround
│   │   ├── vim-tbone
│   │   ├── webapi-vim
│   │   └── wildfire.vim
│   ├── colors
│   │   ├── Tomorrow-Solarized.vim
│   │   ├── badwolf.vim
│   │   ├── blazer.vim
│   │   ├── flatland.vim
│   │   ├── github.vim
│   │   ├── gruvbox.vim
│   │   ├── kellys.vim
│   │   ├── vividchalk.vim
│   │   └── whitebox.vim
│   └── plugin
│       ├── BufOnly.vim
│       └── scratch.vim
├── .vimrc

I've since tried deleting all plugins from the bundle directory and putting back in the tomorrow-night-vim plugin folder but still Vim can't find the plugin so when I execute :colorscheme Tomorrow it fails to locate that file (this was in the hope that maybe there was another plugin that was causing a problem and stopping all other plugins from loading -> clutching at straws on that one I know).

The following output is from running :scriptnames on a similar set-up on my Mac:

~/.vimrc
  2: /usr/local/Cellar/vim/7.4.335/share/vim/vim74/syntax/syntax.vim
  3: /usr/local/Cellar/vim/7.4.335/share/vim/vim74/syntax/synload.vim
  4: /usr/local/Cellar/vim/7.4.335/share/vim/vim74/syntax/syncolor.vim
  5: /usr/local/Cellar/vim/7.4.335/share/vim/vim74/filetype.vim
  6: ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim
  7: /usr/local/Cellar/vim/7.4.335/share/vim/vim74/ftoff.vim
  8: ~/.vim/bundle/Dockerfile.vim/ftdetect/Dockerfile.vim
  9: ~/.vim/bundle/vim-clojure-static/ftdetect/clojure.vim
 10: ~/.vim/bundle/vim-cucumber/ftdetect/cucumber.vim
 11: ~/.vim/bundle/vim-haml/ftdetect/haml.vim
 12: ~/.vim/bundle/vim-markdown/ftdetect/markdown.vim
 13: ~/.vim/bundle/vim-node/ftdetect/node.vim
 14: ~/.vim/bundle/vim-polyglot/ftdetect/polyglot.vim
 15: ~/.vim/bundle/vim-ruby/ftdetect/ruby.vim
 16: ~/.vim/bundle/vim-polyglot/after/ftdetect/rspec.vim
 17: /usr/local/Cellar/vim/7.4.335/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin.vim
 18: /usr/local/Cellar/vim/7.4.335/share/vim/vim74/indent.vim
 19: ~/.vim/bundle/tomorrow-night-vim/colors/Tomorrow-Night.vim
 20: ~/.vim/plugin/BufOnly.vim
 21: ~/.vim/plugin/scratch.vim
 22: ~/.vim/bundle/ack.vim/plugin/ack.vim
 23: ~/.vim/bundle/camelcasemotion/plugin/camelcasemotion.vim
 24: ~/.vim/bundle/CSApprox/plugin/CSApprox.vim
 25: ~/.vim/bundle/ctrlp.vim/plugin/ctrlp.vim
 26: ~/.vim/bundle/ctrlp.vim/autoload/ctrlp/mrufiles.vim
 27: ~/.vim/bundle/emmet-vim/plugin/emmet.vim
 28: ~/.vim/bundle/Gist.vim/plugin/gist.vim
 29: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/plugin/NERD_tree.vim
 30: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/autoload/nerdtree.vim
 31: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/path.vim
 32: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/menu_controller.vim

Answer 1

So it seems the problem wasn't with Pathogen but with Git and it not committing my submodules. Apparently there is a way to work around this using a .gitmodules file but I didn't have time to investigate it further so I solved the problem using some basic Unix commands:

find . -type d -name '.git' | xargs rm -rf

I then was able to commit the contents of the submodule folders