I have been wondering for a long time why my beloved Vim plugins would not load under Windows. It turns out Vim looks for them in $HOME/vimfiles/plugins under Windows. More information can be found with :help runtimepath.
Who knows, this might help other Unix refugees working on Windows.
How about $VIM/vimfiles/plugins ? I’ve got some plugins in “C:\Program Files\Vim\vimfiles\plugin” and this works perfectly.
Sure, but this assumes you have write access to “C:\Program Files”, so if you are not running Windows with Administrator privileges, you’re stuck.
I had this trouble myself. I ended up moving the files through three of four files before I figured out which one it was supposed to be in. I never thought to check to see where vim checks, which mearly requires a
:version
Oh nice, never heard about :version. Thanks for pointing this.