Getting E488 errors using Pathogen with Vim

I'm trying to use Pathogen to manage my vim add-ons under Ubuntu so I can do some rails develop开发者_StackOverflow社区ment but following all the examples leads to a ton of E488 Trailing characters: errors when I run vim.

Here is my .vimrc not that it's much to look at...

call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()

Has anyone experienced this and if so how did you fix it?

It might be that your file is in the wrong format (dos instead of unix). Try the following:

$ dos2unix .vimrc

I turned up my scroll buffer so I could see the original error and it ended up being gist.vim which is for some reason an html file.. removing this plugin fixed everything.