Vim-go: Pathogen installation issue: Not an editor command: GoLint

[pmcgrath]

I have installed using pathogen as indicated in the readme using

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/fatih/vim-go.git

My environment is ubuntu 14.04 and vim 7.4
Only other plugin is NERDTree
Golang version is 1.4

I have stripped my .vimrc down to

" *** Pathogen
"   http://tammersaleh.com/posts/the-modern-vim-config-with-pathogen/
call pathogen#infect()
call pathogen#helptags()

The only commands with a Go prefix are

GoInstallBinaries
GoUpdateBinaries
Go

I have already installed golint so it is in my $GOPATH/bin directory but when i try to run :GoLint it indicates it is not an editor command

If I run :command none of the Go commands except the ones above appear

From looking at other vim-go issues they indciated the binaries would be placed in a ~/.vim-go directory but that does not exist

:scriptnames output is

  1: /usr/share/vim/vimrc
  2: /usr/share/vim/vim74/debian.vim
  3: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/syntax.vim
  4: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/synload.vim
  5: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/syncolor.vim
  6: /usr/share/vim/vim74/filetype.vim
  7: ~/.vimrc
  8: ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim
  9: /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftoff.vim
 10: ~/.vim/bundle/vim-go/ftdetect/gofiletype.vim
 11: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/plugin/NERD_tree.vim
 12: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/autoload/nerdtree.vim
 13: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/path.vim
 14: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/menu_controller.vim
 15: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/menu_item.vim
 16: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/key_map.vim
 17: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/bookmark.vim
 18: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/tree_file_node.vim
 19: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/tree_dir_node.vim
 20: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/opener.vim
 21: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/creator.vim
 22: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/flag_set.vim
 23: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/nerdtree.vim
 24: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/ui.vim
 25: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/event.vim
 26: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/lib/nerdtree/notifier.vim
 27: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/autoload/nerdtree/ui_glue.vim
 28: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/nerdtree_plugin/exec_menuitem.vim
 29: ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree/nerdtree_plugin/fs_menu.vim
 30: ~/.vim/bundle/vim-go/plugin/go.vim
 31: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/getscriptPlugin.vim
 32: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/gzip.vim
 33: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/matchparen.vim
 34: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim
 35: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/rrhelper.vim
 36: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/spellfile.vim
 37: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/tarPlugin.vim
 38: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/tohtml.vim
 39: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/vimballPlugin.vim
 40: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/zipPlugin.vim
 41: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/vim.vim
 42: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/lua.vim
 43: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/perl.vim
 44: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/pod.vim
 45: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/ruby.vim
 46: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/python.vim
 47: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/tcl.vim

Thanks in advance
Pat

[fatih]

Binaries are installed to GOPATH/bin or GOBIN. I think your setup is failing. Do you have other command's you are using? Please check again your setup. Have a look at my own setup:https://github.com/fatih/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc

[pmcgrath]

fatih,
Thanks for the reply, just in case someone else runs into this issue this is what was causing my problems.
Based on looking at fatih's .vimrc, I realized that I had omitted "filetype plugin on" from my .vimrc file, so I altered it as follows

" *** Pathogen
"   http://tammersaleh.com/posts/the-modern-vim-config-with-pathogen/
call pathogen#infect()
call pathogen#helptags()

" Enable filetype plugins 
filetype plugin on

All the vim commands are now available

Thanks
Pat

[fatih]

Glad you solved it :+1:

[leventeliu]

@fatih I think you should really add the ·toggle your filetype plugin on in the vimrc· step into your installation guide...it is stupid enough but it also took almost a whole day time for a newbie like me to find out this missing setup. I hope that nobody would fall into this trap any more, thank you!

[fatih]

@geterns added here https://github.com/fatih/vim-go/commit/71b668966aea41e716a3903f77acfa755bbdfd3d