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Here is the tutorial I am trying to follow

Here is the init.vim file I have written.

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I just don't understand why I am getting the error

Cannot find colorscheme 'dracula'

This error is occurring in the last line. Can someone please help me out? I am really stuck now.

I searched online a lot but couldn't find anything useful. I am working on WSL in windows 10. I don't have much knowledge about vim plugins. I have used vim only for basic c++ work earlier .

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    Did you do PlugInstall? (May be obvious but I gotta ask.)
    – B Layer
    Dec 30, 2020 at 7:26
  • No, I didn't , since colorscheme was not recognised, I thought its useless to run it.
    – nmnsharma007
    Dec 30, 2020 at 7:28
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    Er, that command actually downloads and installs the colorscheme.
    – B Layer
    Dec 30, 2020 at 7:31
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    LOL. Don't worry about it! Not sure, though, whether I should actually post an answer for it. :)
    – B Layer
    Dec 30, 2020 at 7:36
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    :). Okay. I guess I might as well. Surely, you're not the first person to not realize it.
    – B Layer
    Dec 30, 2020 at 7:38

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A brief word on how vim-plug works...

The main part of a plugin config is a path on GitHub. In your case dracula/vim refers to https://github.com/dracula/vim. What vim-plug needs to do, then, is download/install (using git) the plugin code from that address. But it doesn't happen automatically. It's up to you to run the command :PlugInstall. (And do so each time you add a new plugin(s).)

So once you've updated your vimrc just run :PlugInstall from an instance of Vim that sees the changed vimrc. You'll get some feedback on what happens from there.

Beyond installs there are a number of other commands related to maintaining plugins (:PlugUpdate, :PlugClean, etc.) that you'll need to keep in mind and run as needed. (The automatic part of vim-plug is primarily the management of runtime paths. The location of each configured plugin is added to that behind the scenes.)

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    Welcome to Vi&Vim SE, btw. :)
    – B Layer
    Dec 30, 2020 at 7:53

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