If you want to uninstall a plugin which was installed into ~/.vim manually, you should redownload its archive, list its content and manually remove everything, then run :helptags
again (this will remove missing tags). If plugin was installed from a vimball, see documentation for :RmVimball
. Vimball archives normally have .vba
or .vba.gz
extensions. In case you don’t remember vimball file name, it is contained into ~/.vim/.VimballRecord
file.
In order to avoid this problem in the future, try vim-addon-manager plugin. Like pathogen, it puts each plugin into separate directory, but is also capable of downloading, installing and updating them.