For programming, I've found that my time spent navigating the code dominates the time I spend editing it. Bram's recommendation is to generate a tags file right

For programming, I've found that my time spent navigating the code dominates the time I spend editing it. Bram's recommendation is to generate a tags file right away for every project to keep this time down, and it's excellent advice. The problem with this, however, is that it's a pain to remember to generate and update the tags database. Thankfully, you can configure Git so that it builds a tags database for you automatically whenever you clone a repo, and updates it in the background every time you commit, pull, or push. Instructions here from Tim Pope: http://tbaggery.com/2011/08/08/effortless-ctags-with-git.html http://tbaggery.com/2011/08/08/effortless-ctags-with-git.htm... I'm partial to GNU Global, myself, which adds a basic "find references" command, slightly better parsing, and incremental DB updates. Also relatively easy to set up for effortless navigation: https://csl.name/post/gtags/ https://csl.name/post/gtags/