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vim tips and tricks

plugins

Checking www.vim.org shows over a thousand downloadable plugins (scripts). Here are some useful ones:

• matchit: extended % matching for HTML, LaTeX, etc...
• vimspell: spell checker
• timestamp: automatically timestamp files