Vim features

Vim is most popular successor of the mighty editor vi. The one that revolutionized the way we edit text by allowing you to see it while editing! :)

This is just collection of features that i like in vim, nothing more, nothing less.

My favorite feature are the tabs in 7.0 and above. While minibuf script did provide this kind of functionality the tabs are displayed in a much more concise way. Notice the '+'? It means the file hasn't yet been saved. To move between the tabs use "gt" and "gT". Here is a handy shortcut for easier tab opening (notice the space at the end)

map tt :tabnew 

set wildmenu

The wild menu visualizes the selection when you press tab twice or more, here is the example with :tabnew

This is a true life saver when it comes to browsing code you are not familiar with, it allows you to open a window with big picture overview of the code. To make it even more useful here are some related lines from my .vimrc:

nnoremap   :TlistToggle

let Tlist_GainFocus_On_ToggleOpen=1

let Tlist_Exit_OnlyWindow=1