Calmar's Personal Vim tips

1. The Plugins I use (may download them at vim.org):
   • taglist.vim: nice tag list in a seperate vertical window for comfortable source (ctags) browsing (:Tlist)
   • SuperTab.vim: basically uses the TAB for completion in insert mode instead of Ctrl-P/N with some additional features
   • boxes / t.jensen: GREAT for creating nice boxes around text e.g. while writing a mail or commenting code. (my .boxes). May use maps like that in your .vimrc:
     map <LEADER>b2 vip:!boxes -p a1 -d ca-rounded<CR>f[llR
   • cli utilities / for vim. Additionally I use often HTML tidy (tidy -iq -asxhtml) from here
   • xml.vim: really helpful things for creating xml files (you may rename (link) it to html.vim and put in into the ftplugin) :help xml-plugin, let xml_use_xhtml = 1, \v (surround) \d (delete) x;; (<x>|</x>), ...
   • tpope's surround.vim - (visual) s<tag> (surround), dst (remove tag), cst (change tag), ...
   • matchit.vim: get matching xml-tags, braces, if/endif - % (visual)a% g% [% ]% ...
   • Nerd Commenter: un/comment - ,cc ,cl I recommend in your .vimrc a: let NERDDefaultNesting = 1
   • SearchComplete.vim: while searching (/ or ?) you can <tab> for completion
   • Align.vim: Align many things. you can choose left/right/center (lrc), padding left/right (P./p.), the delimiters can be more than one. The order can be revelant or not (C or =), the way you told AlignCtrl about them .. and much more - \abox \anum or :call AlignCtrl('Cp1P2lr', '=', '\>[^=]\<') and a :'<,'>:Align (the C = cycling the delimiters ( = and the regex 'empty space between two words'). The cells borders will be = and then 'empty space'... The p1 P2 means pad the borders with 1 space on the left and 2 on the right. lr means left then right justify ...
   • DrawIt.vim: draw ascii boxes... (I use sometimes while writing mails) - \di \ds...
   • themes.vim: whole buch of themes (>100)
   • guiplugin/FavMenu.vim: Favourite menu
   • guiplugin/MRUmenu.vim: recent files and so
2. • You can pull a filename into the buffer with C-x C-f in insert mode.
   • gf (mnemomic: goto file) opens a file under or next to the curser
   • When you mark something with the mouse (e.g. out of a browser), you can access that with the register "* and "+ . When you later mark something inside vim, "* gets overridden. But "+ will always stay untouched by vim!