How to install vim syntastic without package manager?

Question

On syntastic repo https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic#installation, the only example they provide for installing syntastic is using pathogen.

How should install it without pathogen or any package manager?

Duluth

Answer 1

Pathogen is only needed for Vim 7 or earlier. In Vim 8 all "Pathogen's" functionality is already built-in, and you should never use it at all.

To install a plugin in Vim 8 you only have to put it under the following path: ~/.vim/pack/<bundle>/start/<plugin-name> Here <bundle> can be any name of your choice. Then restart Vim and issue :helptags ALL to rebuild help tags, and you're done.

There still remains a question how you'll be updating your plugins, but you can do it manually with git etc.

Nowell

Answer 2

After reading the accepted answer I realised my problem was down to an error in the installation documentation for syntastic.

Where it says to restart vim and then type :Helptags it should actually say :helptags (with a lower-case H)

Supination