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I've read a lot of tips about how to make vim as an IDE like editor. Most of them are really useful, and I want to sum up them in this tip, and then add some of my experiences.

You can refer to the "Finding unused keys" section in the "Mapping keys in Vim" tutorial available at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Mapping_keys_in_Vim_-_Tutorial_%28Part_2%29

eta keys are almost always safe (<M-A>, <M-B>, etc.). Check for mappings from plugins, etc. before using. When in doubt, use the help. For example, to see if CTRL-J is taken (it is, but there are several commands to do the same thing) type :help CTRL-J and then press CTRL-D instead of ENTER to list all results. Then view each result to see what they do and if there are any alternate ways to do the same thing before mapping. If the mapping is for one mode only, you can prepend the mode. For example, for CTRL-J in insert mode, :help i_CTRL-J

Oh, and you can also use the map leader (see :help <Leader>), which defaults to the backslash key. For example, nmap <leader>h :echo "hello world!"<CR>

MARVIM - MAcro Repository for VIM "Give your most complex macros a name and store it for future recall and use"

 "Give your most complex macros a name and store it for future recall and use" Problem statement(s): Can't remember those complex VIM macro sequences you use frequently?Wish you could save those macros beyond your immediate session? Wish you could share your VIM macros with each other? Why not templates as well in the same script?

View your search history: / Ctrl-F (:q to exit)

Restore the cursor to the file position in previous editing session (vim.org tip) Put this line in .vimrc: au BufReadPost * if line("'\"") > 0|if line("'\"") <= line("$")|exe("norm '\"")|else|exe "norm $"|endif|endif

lets you embed options in the file itself so that other people who edit the file in vim will see it the way you do—all the tabs will line up correctly, etc., regardless of how they have their ~/.vimrc file set up. This is called a modeline, in the parlance of our times.

This is a continuation of vimscript #182 by Gergely Kontra, who has asked me to take over support and maintenance.  So if you have any questions or suggestions, please direct them to me.  Please read the description below as some enhancements have been made as well. Description:   This script allows you to use the tab key to do all your insert   completion (:help ins-completion).   Ex. To complete the word bar or baz     foo bar baz     b<Tab>   This version of SuperTab supports several configuration options:   NOTE: Please see the "Global Variables" fold in the script for more details.   - The default completion type (defaults to keyword completion)   - The duration that a non-default completion type will be retained before     switching back to the default (defaults to retaining the current     completion type until you manually kick off a different one).   - Disabling of mid-word (word character to the left and right) completion     (defaults to mid-word completion enabled).   - Ability to change the default mapping to kick off forward or backward     completion (defaults to <tab> and <s-tab>).   - A discovery list to determine the default completion type to use for any     given buffer (defaults to no discovery).   - Option to highlight the first entry in the results if your completeopt has     'menu' and 'longest'.

This script provides many useful utility functions for buffers, windows and other misc things. I needed a place to share all the misc. utility functions so I renamed bufNwinUtils.vim and started adding these additional functions. I intend to create/collect many more useful functions and add to this script.

mproves over standard matchparen.vim plugin by echoing line containing matching bracket in the status line so you can quickly see which block is terminated by this paren.  Also scans for braces/parens which are off-screen.

In Vim, the unnamed register is the " register, and the Windows Clipboard is the * register. This means that if you yank something, you have to yank it to the * register if you want to paste it into a Windows app. If this is too much trouble, set the 'clipboard' option to 'unnamed'. Then you always yank to *. So pasting to windows apps doesn't require prefixing "* :   set   clipboard=unnamed

You can also have the Visual selection automatically copied to the clipboard.  If you :set go+=a

(requires vim7.0aa snapshot #188 or later) DrChip's cscope interface supports commands:     CS     [cdefgist]   : cscope     CSl[!] [cdefgist]   : locallist style (! restores efm)     CSs[!] [cdefgist]   : split window and use cscope     !            split vertically     c (calls)    find functions calling function under cursor     d (called)   find functions called by function under cursor     e (egrep)    egrep search for the word under cursor     f (file)     open the file named under cursor     g (global)   find global definition(s) of word under cursor     i (includes) find files that #include file named under cursor     s (symbol)   find all references to the word under cursor     t (text)     find all instances of the word under cursor