I've been trying to add comments to my vimrc file and for some reason it is not allowing me to comment after the execute pathogen line.
4: execute pathogen#infect() "Enable Pathogen
5:
6: syntax on "*Syntax color highlighting*
With vimrc like this, saving and exiting and reentering vim, it gives me an error 'Line 4: Missing quote: "Enable pathogen'
I have syntax highlighting on, and all other comments I make show up as comments, but anything after () on that line doesn't. I don't know if it's something simple I'm missing or if anyone else has seen this, but it seems strange that it's just this one line giving me problems.
I am running Mac OS X 10.13.6 and Vim 8.2.600
Please, read :h :comment carefully
It is not possible to add a comment to a shell command ":!cmd" or to the ":map" command and a few others (mainly commands that expect expressions) that see the '"' as part of their argument:
...
execute
...
syntax
Also note that if the command does not take "bar" as part of argument (see :h :bar), you still can do
execute pathogen#infect() | "Enable Pathogen
Here you have two commands in a row, and the second one is a pure comment.
However, I suggest always write comments on separate lines and not to mess with this stuff at all.