Pathogen not generating help tags Vim Windows

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14827242

  •  09-03-2022
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Question

I if you have already tried solutions like this one Vim + Pathogen not loading help docs where you only add filetype off before calling pathogen infect and you still CANNOT generate the help tags, this hint might help you.

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Solution

Pathogen is searching for the bundle folder under ~/.vim/bundle, and generates the helptags for every doc folder, where ~ is your runtime path. On Windows the default runtime path for vim is ~/Vim/vim73 which somehow confuses Pathogen, if you change the runtime path to the previous folder ~/Vim everything is fixed!

The runtime path variable in Vim is changed using the command:

:let $VIMRUNTIME = "puth_path_here/Vim"

Type :h $VIMRUNTIME in Vim for a more detailed explanation.

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