Temporarily disable some plugins using pathogen in vim.

The easiest method to disable a plugin when you use Pathogen is by adding it's bundle name to the g:pathogen_disabled variable, before starting pathogen.

So an example from my own vimrc

" To disable a plugin, add it's bundle name to the following list
let g:pathogen_disabled = []

" for some reason the csscolor plugin is very slow when run on the terminal
" but not in GVim, so disable it if no GUI is running
if !has('gui_running')
    call add(g:pathogen_disabled, 'csscolor')
endif

" Gundo requires at least vim 7.3
if v:version < '703' || !has('python')
    call add(g:pathogen_disabled, 'gundo')
endif

if v:version < '702'
    call add(g:pathogen_disabled, 'autocomplpop')
    call add(g:pathogen_disabled, 'fuzzyfinder')
    call add(g:pathogen_disabled, 'l9')
endif

call pathogen#infect()

Update: Another method, supported by Pathogen, is to simply rename the directory for the bundle you want to disable so that it ends in a tilde (~). So to disable the autocomplpop bundle, simply rename it to autocomplpop~.

vim -u NONE -N will load vim with no plugins, with no settings from your .vimrc. You could then :source /path/to/plugin/you-want.vim inside vim to load the one plugin you want loaded.

vim --noplugin

In this case vim will not load any plugins but your vimrc will be used.

After you can load your plugin in vim:

:source 'your plugin path'