How do I install a plugin for vim

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I d like to try the plugin for Vim linked below  It adds syntax highlighting for  haml and  perhaps   sass files   http   github com tpope vim-haml  I did this       cd    vim   git clone git   github com tpope vim-haml git   I opened a  haml file in Vim  but there s no highlighting  There must be another step I need to perform

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To expand on Karl s reply  Vim looks in a specific set of directories for its runtime files   You can see that set of directories via  set runtimepath    In order to tell Vim to also look inside    vim vim-haml you ll want to add  set runtimepath   HOME  vim vim-haml   to your    vimrc   You ll likely also want the following in your    vimrc to enable all the functionality provided by vim-haml   filetype plugin indent on syntax on   You can refer to the  runtimepath  and  filetype help topics in Vim for more information

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Those two commands will create a    vim vim-haml  directory with the ftplugin  syntax  etc directories in it  Those directories need to be immediately in the    vim directory proper or    vim vim-haml needs to be added to the list of paths that vim searches for plugins   Edit   I recently decided to tweak my vim config and in the process wound up writing the following rakefile  It only works on Mac Linux  but the advantage over cp versions is that it s completely safe  symlinks don t overwrite existing files  uninstall only deletes symlinks  and easy to keep things updated     Easily install vim plugins from a source control checkout  e g  Github      alias vim-install rake -f    vim rakefile-vim-install   vim-install   vim-install uninstall  require  ftools  require  fileutils   task  default   gt   install desc  Install a vim plugin the lazy way  task  install do   vim dir        File expand path     vim     plugin dir     Dir pwd    if not  FileTest exists  File join plugin dir   git   or           FileTest exists  File join plugin dir   svn   or           FileTest exists  File join plugin dir   hg          puts    plugin dir  isn t a source controlled directory  Aborting         exit 1   end    Dir        each do  d      FileUtils mkdir p File join vim dir  d    end    Dir        txt snippet snippets vim js wsf    each do  f      ln File join plugin dir  f   File join vim dir f    end    boldred     033 1 31m    clear     033 0m    puts   nDone  Remember to   boldred  helptags    vim doc  clear   end  task  uninstall do   vim dir        File expand path     vim     plugin dir     Dir pwd   Dir        txt snippet snippets vim    each do  f      safe rm File join vim dir  f    end end  def nicename path      boldgreen     033 1 32m      clear     033 0m      return    boldgreen   File join path split      -2  -1     clear  t  end  def ln src  dst      begin         FileUtils ln s src  dst         puts      Symlink   nicename src  t   gt    nicename dst       rescue Errno  EEXIST         puts      nicename dst  exists  Skipping       end end  def cp src  dst    puts      Copying   nicename src  t  gt    nicename dst     FileUtils cp src  dst end  def safe rm target      if FileTest exists  target and FileTest symlink  target         puts        nicename target  removed           File delete target     else         puts      nicename target  is not a symlink  Skipping      end end

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Make sure that the actual  vim file is in    vim plugin

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Update  as 2019    cd    vim git clone git   github com tpope vim-haml git pack bundle start haml   Explanation  from  h pack ad  h packages     All the directories found are added to runtimepath  They must be in    vim pack whatever start  you can only change whatever   the plugins found in the plugins dir in runtimepath are sourced    So this load the plugin on start  hence the name start    You can also get optional plugin  loaded with  packadd  if you put them in    vim pack bundle opt

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I think you should have a look at the Pathogen plugin  After you have this installed  you can keep all of your plugins in separate folders in    vim bundle   and Pathogen will take care of loading them   Or  alternatively  perhaps you would prefer Vundle  which provides similar functionality  with the added bonus of automatic updates from plugins in github

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