All of that but now I rely even more on searching a few characters to move around and do a lot of edit I make with :<,>s//g or :%s//g with the plugin that shows

All of that but now I rely even more on searching a few characters to move around and do a lot of edit I make with :<,>s//g or :%s//g with the plugin that shows the result in realtime called traces. Vim regex is not the best and there's an option to change but I got used to it. Recommend http://www.vimregex.com/ http://www.vimregex.com/ gv is quite handy when you want to reselect last to rerun a command on it too