A

• Access vim@vim.org using Newsgroup Reader
• Add trailing blanks to lines for easy visual blocks
• Add/change file extension in current buffer
• Alter the display of buffers in the buffers menu
• Always keep quickfix window at specified height
• Ampersand in freebsd shell commands to view LaTeX files
• Apply range to any command that does not accept ranges
• Autoconvert leading eight spaces to tab when type or paste in Makefile
• Automatically create tmp or backup directories
• Automatically maximizing gvim in KDE
• Automatically redate file headers
• Automatically set screen title

B

• Bookmarks as menu item
• Buffer bar to list buffers

C

• Calculate equations from within vim
• Calculator Editing
• Calculator and code evaluation using Perl
• Capitalize words and regions easily
• Capitalize words in insert and normal modes without moving the cursor
• Capture SQL query output
• Change vimrc with auto reload
• Chop long lines
• Close vim you left open remotely
• Cobol editing with Vim
• ColdFusion and matchit
• Command line switch to source a script
• Command line tricks
• Compress Vim doc files to save space
• Console-like fonts for Windows GVim
• Context sensitive access to MSDN help
• Convenience wrapper for setline
• Converting LANG to UTF-8
• Copy and paste between sessions using a temporary file
• Copy current file to another location from within vim
• Copy parts of filename to clipboard
• Correcting accented characters
• Create one mapping for both console and GUI
• Current buffer based menus

D

• Delete files with a Vim command
• Delete some lines with some exceptions
• Delete words in a different way
• Dictionary completions
• Diff current buffer and the original file
• Disable F1 built-in help key
• Disable built-in command
• Disabling cabbrev
• Display date-and-time on status line
• Display last viewed text lines at top of new shell
• Drag words with Ctrl-left/right
• Duplicate previous line word by word

E

• Easy floating point arithmetic
• Easy indenting in insert and normal mode with no cursor displacement
• Easy word and page selection and deletion in gvim
• Edit Java jar and other files
• Edit a temporary copy of the current file
• Edit and organize several remote files easily
• Edit file found by whereis
• Edit gnupg-encrypted files
• Edit multiple files from a list of file names
• Editing databases with Vim/Perl/DBI
• Encrypt a file without leaving traces
• Enhance the calendar script with special dates
• Evaluate an expression in any mode
• Execute a shell command in the directory shown in file explorer
• Execute command on each file in a list
• Execute commands without changing the search register
• Execute sybase-sql queries and see the result in a split window
• Expand existing abbreviation
• Extending keywords
• External paste buffer

F

• Fast one session mapping
• Fast start up in a telnet session
• Faster directory browsing from command line
• FileName Completion in Shell Scripts
• Fix arrow keys that display A B C D on remote shell
• Fix the x command in virtualedit mode
• For verilog users only
• Format only long lines
• Formatting stuff

G

• Generate calendar file
• Get a shell command for changing to the current directory
• Get cursor position as byte percentage instead of line percentage
• Get inline help for PHP functions
• Get the vim patched source
• Get vim 5.x window in vim 6.x
• Getting name of the function
• Go away and come back
• Go to alternate file or next file if no alternate
• Go to end-of-line when using langmap
• Gtk gvim and fontconfig

H

• Have . restore the cursor position a la emacs in viper mode
• How to avoid obliterating window layout

I

• Incremental backup in central backup directory
• Inline integer arithmetic
• Insert a non commented line despite formatoptions

I cont.

• Insert a single character
• Insert comment boxes in your code
• Insert line numbers with a Perl filter
• Integrate Vim with a dictionary
• Invert the number row keys for faster typing

J

• JAVH - Just another Vim Hacker
• Joining two lines of text based on pattern
• Jump to a line number
• Jump to definition of entity under cursor
• Jump to file from CVSDiff output
• Jumps to a local/global definition by same key

K

• Keep SQL-PLUS command history under Windows
• Keep incremental backups of edited files
• Keep passwords in encrypted file
• Keep the modified flag after writing to a file
• Keystroke Saving Substituting and Searching

L

• List buffers sorted by name
• Listing buffers
• Load files from list of filenames in a text file
• Lookup word in dict

M

• Maintain cursor and screen position
• Maintain multiple versions of gvim in Windows
• Make great use of those homemade menus
• Make non-ASCII characters displayed on console
• Make tar of all files in vim buffer
• Mapping fast keycodes in terminal Vim
• Mapping to enter colon commands
• Matching optional parts of a word
• Maximize window and return to previous split structure
• Mbox archive emails
• Measure time taken to execute a command
• Menu for inserting special characters
• Move comment line to end of next line
• Move cursor by display lines when wrapping
• Move cursor up/down virtually in insert mode
• Move through wrapped lines
• Moving by screen lines instead of file lines
• Moving to the next word in insert mode

N

• Navigate to the next open fold
• Newlines and nulls in Vim script
• Not So Quick generic option toggling
• Numbering lines and interpolating sequences

O

• OEM to ANSI conversion
• One big window
• Online documentation for word under cursor
• Open file in already running vim from elsewhere
• Open same file read-only in second Vim
• Opening multiple files from a single command-line
• Opening new buffer below the current
• Opening several files in vim via ListFile

P

• Page 1 of 123 in header of hardcopy
• Page up/down and keep cursor position
• Paste from the clipboard into a new vim
• Pasting registers
• Power K
• Preloading registers
• Press space to jump between windows and to expand them
• Prevent a second instance of Vim from starting
• Prevent escape from moving the cursor one character to the left
• Prevent frequent commands from slowing things down
• Preview output from interpreter in new window
• Prompted quit in insert-mode
• Protecting a file from accidental changes
• Put boxes around comments in code

Q

• Quick and dirty Postgres query
• Quick peak at files
• Quick save to a temporary file before more edits
• Quick window resizing
• Quickly insert a single word
• Quickly look up Vim help

R

• Recursive mappings
• Refresh screen while typing a command
• Rejustify roff style markup
• Reload your filetype/syntax plugin
• Remember my buffers
• Remember where you had ended reading help
• Remembering previous deletes/yanks
• Remove up to the nth slash to clean file lists
• Repeat command on each line in visual block
• Repeat last colon command
• Repeating a substitute from current cursor position
• Replace a visual-block of text with another such block
• Replace buffer list when switching
• Replace with no typing
• Resize window when showing/hiding line numbers
• Resize xterm when running vimdiff
• Restore state of edited files when reopened
• Reverse letters
• Reverse selected text
• Review code effectively using quickfix

S

• Sample switch between number/nonumber
• Save buffer without changing Last Modified attribute
• Save settings between Vim sessions
• Saving file made easy
• Scroll alternate window

S cont.

• Scroll using arrow keys like in a web browser
• Search JDK help for keyword at cursor
• Search and sort by selection
• Search only over a visual range
• Search the web for text selected in Vim
• Search through files
• Search without need to escape slash
• Searching for files
• See man pages by gview
• See the tabs in your file
• Select tab page with a key
• Send buffer to interpreter in a new xterm
• Send to default printer with no prompts under Windows
• Set VIMRUNTIME within vimrc
• Shadow your comments to see the code
• Shebang line automatically generated
• Show file modification time and more on status bar
• Show file modification time on status bar
• Simple Macros to quote and unquote a word
• Simple code beautifier
• Simple placeholders
• Simple programmers TODO list using grep and quickfix
• Simple text alignment
• Simulating arrays with Vim
• Skip blank lines when folding text
• Smarter Table Editing
• Smarter Table Editing II
• Sorting lines in a file based on the number of words in each line
• Source searching for programmers
• Special characters in the substitute command
• Specify a column with bar
• Speed up developing XSLT files
• Start in insert mode without losing your escape key
• Start with a wide window for diff
• Status line to display more information
• Statusline tab level ruler
• Step increment and replace
• Substitute characters and lines easily
• Suppressing file changed warnings in a specific buffer
• Switch between Vim window splits easily
• Switching between different statuslines
• Switching between files

T

• Temporarily replace grep with a custom program
• Timer to execute commands periodically
• Toggle auto-wrap
• Toggle between tabs and spaces
• Toggle gvim window size
• Toggle spellcheck with function keys
• Toggle to open or close the quickfix window
• Trailing white space aware Delete key
• Transfer text between two Vim instances
• Transfer text between two gvim sessions using clipboard
• Translate HTML entity numbers to text
• Translate text between different character sets

U

• Upload web files from Vim using Python
• Use K to easily run a Windows program for the current word
• Use Return and Delete keys in normal mode like in insert mode
• Use a smaller font for vimdiff
• Use balloonexpr effectively
• Use gvim as an external editor for Linux apps
• Use ijkl to move the cursor and h to insert
• Use tab key to switch windows and current file path
• Use the buffer menu in gvim
• Use the last-inserted-text register
• Using H and L keys as context sensitive pagedown/pageup
• Using Vim as an outline processor
• Using Vim key bindings while typing non-latin1 text
• Using bar in external grep
• Using g instead of substitute
• Using selected text in a command
• Using vertical splits
• Using vim to view source and edit textarea in mozilla/firebird
• Using your vim on different xterms with colors
• Uuencode and uudecode text in Vim

V

• Vi key bindings in gtk
• View NFO-files correctly
• View and diff MS Word files
• View character class
• View man pages in Vim
• Viewing the actual XPM data in GVIM
• Vim and ocaml interpreter
• Vim as bookmark manager
• Visual marks
• Visual selection of indent block

W

• Whitespace hungry backspace/delete
• Windo and restore current window
• Word under cursor for command
• Word-wise cut, copy and paste
• Wordwise Ctrl-Y in insert mode
• Working with multiple sessions
• Working with only one term/console?
• Write a date-stamped backup of the current file
• Writing a valid statusline