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• The Vim FAQ is online.
• There are several methods to change the indentation of a block of lines.
• A mapping can change the Home key to move to the first character, or the first that is nonblank.
• Filtering and redirection can capture output from Vim or external programs.
• It's easy to change between backslash and forward slash in a file path.
• If you create your own tags file, you can jump to the correct line and column.
• If you work with many files, it's easy to save them all with :wa or :xa.
• Simple substitutes or a Perl script can convert text using HTML entities like >.
• The command :g/^/exe ".w ".line(".").".txt" saves each line in the buffer to a separate file.
• :g// lists all lines containing the last search pattern, and :redir will capture the results.
• With set browsedir=buffer the File, Open dialog defaults to the current file's directory.