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I have installed YouCompleteMe in the past, but don't remember how. I recently decided to sync my ~.vim directory over multiple computers via a cloud service and realized I was inadvertently downloading a huge amount of language support I didn't need. I attempted to manually clear (ir)relevantly-named subdirectories, and then noticed that the completion suggestions I needed (for LaTeX; it will become clear, if it is not already I am not any kind of programmer) had stopped functioning. I would like to reinstall it from scratch.

So, trying to follow the documentation for YouCompleteMe and one YouTube video, I've now done the following:

  1. Deleted the YouCompleteMe directory from ~/.vim/plugins,
  2. Deleted the line Plugin 'ycm-core/YouCompleteMe' from my .vimrc and done :w and :so %,
  3. Run :PlugClean (which reports that there is nothing to clean),
  4. Readded the line Plugin 'ycm-core/YouCompleteMe', done :w and :so % and :PlugInstall, which reports that there is nothing to be added.

I can do 3) and 4) in a loop indefinitely without anything changing, and :PluginList reports the installedness of YouCompleteMe whenever the line Plugin 'ycm-core/YouCompleteMe' is present in the .vimrc and :so % has been run, without any apparent installation having happened in between.

I am obviously doing something very simple very incorrectly. What should I be doing instead?

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    there might be files other than those in ~/.vim/plugins (lots of (sub)directories in the runtimepath), and I think vim-plug keeps all its stuff in certain user-configured places.
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Sep 17, 2022 at 23:36
  • So you'd recommend trying to hunt down and manually delete those files? Is what happened that the purge function doesn't know what to look for because I've already deleted the index?
    – jdc
    Sep 18, 2022 at 21:10
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    yes I think so; best to start as clean as you can.
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Sep 19, 2022 at 12:11

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