Installing NERDTree on Windows

Question

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?

Sparhawk

Answer 1

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.

Outofdate

Thank you, every tutorial I've seen doesn't mention this! – Disentail

Answer 2

try extracting the file to vimfiles instead of .vim

Lisettelisha

Answer 3

None of the other answers worked for me, so I did the following:

• The contents of directory ‘doc’ gets copied to: C:\Program Files\Vim\vimXX\doc
• The directory ‘nerdtree_plugin’ is copied to C:\Program Files\Vim\vimXX\
• The contents of directory ‘plugin’ is copied to C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vimXX\plugin\

Where XX is your vim version number. Works for 7.4

Source http://shawn.hamman.co.nz/

Goatsucker

This did not work for me. I also tried the Vim 8+ plugin support, that didn't work. I'm installing on Windows 10 with Vim 9. Any help is greatly appreciated. – Somniloquy