This document discusses tips and tricks for using the Vim text editor. It begins with an introduction to Vim and emphasizes the importance of learning basic Vim commands. It then provides recommendations for basic Vim training materials. The bulk of the document focuses on introducing 15 useful Vim plugins and customizations that can be made in the ~/.vimrc file. These are meant to enhance Vim's functionality and usability for tasks like code completion, indentation, commenting code, and diff/merging files. Links are provided to external resources for further reference.

1. Vim Rocks!
Kent Chen

2. Kent Chen (chenkaie)
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3. / Pronounce
[vim]

4. No basic training today

5. Neither bullshit, blah blah...

6. Vim’s
Nor Vim clever tricks

7. Vim [vim]
Sharing my real-world experience

8. Discussion on Vim experience

9. Sharing your own experience

10. //192.168.59.78/Upload

11. The Unwritten Rule

12. Vim is a REAL man's text editor
by aiink.com/c9s

13. Never ignore the basic training

14. Basic training is a MUST

15. But...

16. Today we’re focusing on...

17. Vim
Advanced Vim knowledge sharing

18. Recommended Vim
basic training materials

19. by 0xlab/Jserv

20. by vgod

21. by Ted Naleid

22. by
Michael

23. Cut to the chase

24. $HOME/.vimrc
&
Vim Plugins

25. The very first trick

26. Again! The Unwritten Rule

27. To Cut or Not to Cut
That Is The Question

28. REAL Men never
touch arrow keys

29. HJKL
REAL Men use HJKL instead

30. ADM-3A Keyboard
from Wikipedia

31. STOP using the arrow keys, Dude!

32. Vim Plugins
or
Vim Scripts

33. Trick 1

34. Smart Home Key : Better Home key experience for
editing, especially for coding

35. Trick 2

36. vim-powerline : The ultimate vim statusline utility
Mode > VCS > Filename fileformat < fileencoding < filetype < scrollpercent < lineinfo

37. Trick 3

38. Tagbar : Display tags of the current file ordered by
scope

39. Trick 4

40. clang complete : Use of Clang for completing C/C+
+ (IntelliSense-like autocomplete)

41. Trick 5

42. neocomplcache: Ultimate auto-completion
system for Vim

43. Trick 6

44. vim-indent-object : Text Objects based on
Indentation Level

45. Trick 7

46. matchit.zip : extended % matching for HTML, LaTeX,
and many other languages

47. Trick 8

48. The NERD Commenter : A plugin that allows for easy
commenting of code for many filetypes.

49. Trick 9

50. snipMate : TextMate-style snippets for Vim

51. Trick 10

52. matchit.zip : extended % matching for HTML, LaTeX,
and many other languages

53. Trick 11

54. SuperTab : Do all your insert-mode completion
with Tab.

55. Trick 12

56. vcscommand.vim : CVS/SVN/SVK/git/hg/bzr
integration plugin

57. Trick 13

58. DirDiff.vim : A plugin to diff and merge two
directories recursively.

59. Trick 14

60. Tabular :Vim script for text filtering and
alignment

61. Trick 15

62. Vundle : the plug-in manager for Vim

63. $HOME/.vimrc

64. Trick 1

65. backup & swapfile

66. Trick 2

67. ignorecase & smartcase

68. Trick 3

69. : → ; & wildmode

70. Trick 4

71. window operation

72. Trick 5

73. tab operation

74. Trick 6

75. WinMerge-style diff/merge operation

76. Reference
Klayman’s .vimrc
VIM Hacks (c9s)
Perl Hacks on Vim (c9s)
VIM - Hack Your Editor! (yzlin)
My .vimrc
http://github.com/chenkaie/DotFiles/blob/master/.vimrc