Pathogen just manipulates the 'runtimepath'
option; the situation with plugin reloads is therefore the same as with the plain default plugin structure. (Other plugin managers may offer this kind of reload / dynamic enable functionality; I suppose you want to stick with Pathogen.)
To retroactively enable a plugin in a running Vim session, you need to :source
all (usually that's only one) plugin scripts that have been added. For a plugin named foobar
, that would be:
:source ~/.vim/bundle/foobar/plugin/foobar.vim
If you can get Pathogen to re-initialize the 'runtimepath'
(or augment it yourself via :set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/foobar
), you can also use the shorter
:runtime plugin/foobar.vim