1) I just use fugitive[0] for that. `git status` in vim is now just the `:G`, command, though I map it to `gs` so it's even quicker. 2) I can't really help yo

1) I just use fugitive[0] for that. `git status` in vim is now just the `:G`, command, though I map it to `gs` so it's even quicker. 2) I can't really help you there, at least not in vanilla vim. I make heavy use of tmux and never work on my more than one repo in the same vim instance, nor is my vim's current working directory every anything other than the root of the repo I'm in. So if I do need to open a file in another repo and want to see two repos side-by-side (which is rare but it happens), I make a tmux split. 3) gutentags [1] can help with this. Though nothing is better than using a language server for your given language. That said, I still just have gutentags and mostly just grep/search for `def func` like you currently do. [0] https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive [1] https://github.com/ludovicchabant/vim-gutentags https://github.com/ludovicchabant/vim-gutentags