How to install pathogen on Neovim?

Question

I've read that pathogen works on nvim, i tried to follow the vim installation process:

mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/bundle && \
curl -LSso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim

Changing the .vim/bundle part:

mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.local/share/nvim/bundle && \
curl -LSso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim

my init.vim is:

execute pathogen#infect()
set guicursor=
set clipboard+=unnamedplus

when i launch nvim i get:

E117: unknown function: pathogen#infect()
E15: invalid expression: pathogen#infect() 

Answer 1

mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.local/share/nvim/bundle

This is wrong for Neovim. ~/.config/nvim is the replacement for ~/.vim.

mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim/autoload ~/.config/nvim/bundle is what you should use.

If you want to your config to work with both Vim and Neovim, then I would recommend symlinks.

mkdir -p ~/.config/
ln -s ~/.vim ~/.config/nvim 
ln -s ~/.vimrc ~/.config/nvim/init.vim 

~/.local/share/nvim/init is also part of 'runtimepath', so if you wanted to keep plugins separate from your personal config, that would be an alternate place to put the bundle directory.