I think it might be telling that the first I've heard of Vimballs is your comment, so I won't say much more about that :) It seems only Supertab Continued with

I think it might be telling that the first I've heard of Vimballs is your comment, so I won't say much more about that :) It seems only Supertab Continued with it's odd ":%so" install thingy was a Vimball, but the author never called it that on his Vim.org/scripts page. Automatically in insert mode is what I expected to be the most divisive comment, and it proved so! Maybe this would be solved by my distribution suggestion: new users get Vim in insert mode, seasoned vets get Vim in normal mode on start-up. There isn't one setting that will please everyone, although I do have a suspicion that the normal mode at start-up turns off more people than might be expected. For the comment command deal, I found similar blog posts along that line. Again, I think it's the sort of command that isn't obvious to new users, and you need to be jiving with the Tao of Vim before it makes sense (I only have a half handle on it myself). I just wanted a keyboard command, like Textmate's Cmd+/ . NERD Commenter's key command is ,/, which makes me happy, and it works across multiple file types. My hope is that when I get better at Vim, I'll be able to come up with such commands myself, but I don't expect that sort of proficiency for months, if not years. I'm perhaps a slow learner ;)