Vim claims Eclim’s ProjectCreate is not an editor command

Question

I followed eclim’s installation instructions, but when getting started I can’t even create a project :

:ProjectCreate /path/to/project
E492: Not an editor command: ProjectCreate

What’s wrong ?

Answer 1

Did you use the eclim installer suggestion to install vimfiles in ~/.vim/bundle/eclim ? By default (at least on Debian) vim won’t look into this directory. You have to move eclim’s vimfiles (directories eclim and plugins) directly into ~/.vim/ (merge plugins if it already exists).

Alternatively, I didn’t test it but the "build from source" tutorial suggests to

create a user.properties file at the eclim source root and put all your properties in there:

$ vim user.properties
eclipse.home=/opt/eclipse
eclipse.local=${user.home}/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_<version>
vim.files=${user.home}/.vim/bundle/eclim