This was originally posted on 2011-04-05 to http://andrewho.co.uk/weblog/vim-pathogen-with-mutt-and-git
For a long time I've used vim as my editor for both composing messages in mutt
and commit messages for git. I do this with the following line in my
~/.muttrc (and a similar one in my ~/.gitconfig:
set editor = "vim -c 'set wrap tw=76 fo=toqwal12 nonumber spell' +1"
Recently I refactored my vim configuration files using Tim Pope's excellent
pathogen script. Doing so required me to place the following lines in my
~/.vimrc to load all plugins from ~/.vim/bundle:
call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
call pathogen#helptags()
However, on debian filetype detection is turned on by default which causes problems with pathogen. The fix is to turn it off before calling pathogen:
filetype off
call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
call pathogen#helptags()
filetype plugin indent on
This produces another problem, however. For some unknown reason, filetype off
causes vim to exit with a non-zero exit code on Mac OS X. When used with mutt,
this throws up an ugly warning after editing a message. Git flat out refuses to
acknowledge a commit message in this case. The solution is to turn it on then
off again:
filetype on
filetype off
call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
call pathogen#helptags()
filetype plugin indent on
This vim configuration will work on both debian-based and Mac OS X systems.