:set textwidth=80
autobreak lines after whitespace.  this behavior is often nice when writing code
or documentation.  the only problem is that nothing rewraps if you start
changing lines, but rewrapping isn't too tough using J to join lines

:set nu
Show line numbers

QuickFix (quick making/building)
:mak	- run the build
:cn	- next error
:cp	- previous error
:clist	- list errors
:cfirst	- first error
:clast	- last error

Folding
:set foldmethod=marker
:set foldmarker={{{,}}}

za - toggle fold
zo - open fold
zO - recursive open
zc - close fold
zC - recursive close
zm - global close one level
zM - close all folds
zr - global open one level
zR - open all folds
[z - move to start of current fold
]z - move to end of current fold
zj - move down to next fold
zk - move up to next fold

:colo - color scheme to use

Useful plugins

buffer explorer
taglist

:e# - jump to previous file
:ls	- list open buffers (if you don't have bufexplorer)

Search and replace
:%s/foo/bar/g   (global search and replace.  in the example, all instances of "foo" get replaced by "bar")

'' - jump to jump spot
'. - jump to last modification line

:split

Running text through the command line
Visual Search, then :!command
Whole file


Get shell output easily in vim

:r!command args

:r!ls -1 ~

- Macros
qX - record macro on register X
@X - run macros recorded on registar X
@@ - run last macro

- Registers
use these modifiers with 'y' and 'p'
To copy into register 'a', use "ay  (this yanks into register a)
to paste from reg 'a', "ap


syntax highlighting on
:syn

filetypes determine syntax highlighting
## adding filetype to syntax definition thingies
:set filetype=blah

:set fileformat=[dos|unix|max]

Tags
I'm still trying to get these to work for Java and PHP

Code Stuff
[{ and ]}  - find beginning and end of curly brace blocks
[( and ])  - find beginning and end of paren blocks
[m and ]m  - find previous and next methods/functions
%  - find matching () or {}


Auto completion
CTRL-p

CTRL-a - increment next number
CTRL-x - decrement next number
:set nrformat
	possibilities: alpha, octal, hex


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