Nice tips. As a side note - in my opinion, finding a good color scheme can also improve your enjoyability and even usability of vim. I was surprised at how much

Nice tips. As a side note - in my opinion, finding a good color scheme can also improve your enjoyability and even usability of vim. I was surprised at how much easier on the eyes some color schemes were versus the default. In addition, if you like having a default terminal look that doesn't quite transfer well to vim (such as a terminal with a little transparency which can be helpful on smaller screens since you can effectively "share" some space between your terminal and whatever you might be reading off of), having a default colorscheme will fix that too. One very (almost overly) comprehensive place to start is at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/VimColorSchemeTest/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/VimColorSchemeTest/ Personally I like desert256