I generally don’t know exactly where in the folder structure different files live since I’m used to being able to search by just the name i.e. RubyMine’s Ctrl-N

Yahuda Katz wrote a blog post earlier in the year where he listed some of the plugins he’s been using - one of which is called Command-T and allows exactly this functionality.

I also quite like the ability to quickly access files that I’ve recently opened i.e. files which are in the Vim buffer or RubyMine’s Ctrl-E. The FuzzyFinder plugin provides that functionality.

I’ve also tagged all my Ruby gems and the source code of the project using Exuberant CTags which then allows easy browsing to methods/classes.

I’ve noticed that the way I browse inside files has changed since I started using Vim.

I used to just scroll around files using the mouse but now I find myself moving around a file by line numbers instead.

A lot of the commands for file editing in Vim are based on moving/changing/deleting to a particular symbol so you become almost a human parser when reading a line of text.

I found/am finding the following quite useful for learning Vim shortcuts:

When coding in Java/C# I rely quite heavily on auto complete to tell me what methods I have available to me on a certain object.

Although I don’t use it that frequently the SuperTab plugin works reasonably well when you do need help.

Mike pointed out Vimlander-2-The-Quickening which has some of the plugins I mentioned and several others ready to use.