Oh yeah, I just realized you completely left that stuff out. That's one of my favorite parts of vim and what I find lacking in 'vim mode' plugins. They get the

Oh yeah, I just realized you completely left that stuff out. That's one of my favorite parts of vim and what I find lacking in 'vim mode' plugins. They get the hotkeys right, but they lack the abstractions of tabs/buffers/windows. What most editors call 'tabs' are windows in vim, and they lack the concept of a vim tab. I use them all the time when I'm doing refactoring work. Being able to organize 'views' in a way that makes sense, then switch between them rapidly is so awesome. You're refactoring some code across 3 files (all open in splits), then you want to look up some other part of the code base for reference. :tabe browse around, read whatever with 100% of the screen devoted to what you're trying to read, then gT and you're back on your old view with 3 buffers open. I have to constantly build up and then destroy these views in other editors. Or just accept that half my screen is cluttered up with irrelevant stuff. Also the fact that everything in vim is a buffer inside a window means that everything is super consistent! You can switch focus between your plugin windows and your files with the same hotkeys! And unless the plugin writer intentionally changed stuff, the plugin buffer works just like a normal buffer, so all the hotkeys you learned before still apply. It's what I really miss in IntelliJ IDE's. I can see all the different panels, but I cannot switch focus to them without memorizing panel-specific hotkeys! I can see the bloody panel is left of my current focus, let me switch focus by just pressing ctrl+h instead of alt+shift+3. Anyway, vim is very vast and trying to explain everything is a daunting task. I think you've made a good attempt :).