title: Vim: "E185: Cannot find color scheme solarized"
body: <p>Setting up a new machine and trying to get Solarized running in Vim.  Getting the following error when I run vim:</p>
  
  <p><code>E185: Cannot find color scheme solarized</code>  </p>
  
  <p>Tried to follow Pathogen install instructions from the <a href="https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized#option-2-pathogen-installation-recommended" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Solarized README on the official repo</a>.  Checked <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8804767/e185-cannot-find-color-scheme-solarized">this similar question &amp; answer</a>, which solved the problem by actually having the proper files in the directory, but as you can see below, my directory is indeed full of goodies (I just cloned it).</p>
  
  <h2>Details</h2>
  
  <ul>
  <li>iTerm2  </li>
  <li>.vimrc is loading, and other plugins are working</li>
  <li>Tried to manually install Solarized also (by moving solarized.vim into .vim/colors), but got the same error</li>
  </ul>
  
  <h3>.vimrc</h3>
  
  <pre><code>32 syntax enable  
  33 " colo wombat  
  34  
  35 """ Solarized """  
  36 let g:solarized_termcolors=256  
  37 set background=dark  
  38 colorscheme solarized  
  </code></pre>
  
  <h3>.vim directory</h3>
  
  <pre><code>├── autoload  
  │   └── pathogen.vim  
  ├── bundle  
  │   ├── ctrlp.vim  
  │   │   ├── autoload  
  │   │   │   ├── ctrlp  
  │   │   │   │   ├── bookmarkdir.vim  
  │   │   │   │   ├── buffertag.vim  
  │   │   │   │   ├── changes.vim  
  │   │   │   │   ├── dir.vim  
  │   │   │   │   ├── line.vim  
  │   │   │   │   ├── mixed.vim  
  │   │   │   │   ├── mrufiles.vim  
  │   │   │   │   ├── quickfix.vim  
  │   │   │   │   ├── rtscript.vim  
  │   │   │   │   ├── tag.vim  
  │   │   │   │   ├── undo.vim  
  │   │   │   │   └── utils.vim  
  │   │   │   └── ctrlp.vim  
  │   │   ├── doc  
  │   │   │   ├── ctrlp.txt  
  │   │   │   └── tags  
  │   │   ├── plugin  
  │   │   │   └── ctrlp.vim  
  │   │   └── readme.md  
  │   ├── supertab  
  │   │   ├── Makefile  
  │   │   ├── README.rst  
  │   │   ├── doc  
  │   │   │   ├── supertab.txt  
  │   │   │   └── tags  
  │   │   └── plugin  
  │   │       └── supertab.vim  
  │   ├── vim-colors-solarized  
  │   │   ├── README.mkd  
  │   │   ├── autoload  
  │   │   │   └── togglebg.vim  
  │   │   ├── bitmaps  
  │   │   │   └── togglebg.png  
  │   │   ├── colors  
  │   │   │   └── solarized.vim  
  │   │   └── doc  
  │   │       ├── solarized.txt  
  │   │       └── tags  
  │   ├── vim-jade  
  │   └── vim-surround  
  │       ├── README.markdown  
  │       ├── doc  
  │       │   ├── surround.txt  
  │       │   └── tags  
  │       └── plugin  
  │           └── surround.vim  
  └── colors  
      └── wombat.vim  
  </code></pre>