Vim: More Vim Tidbits

I reread "vimtutor" for the first time in years. I learned a few things:

e

"e" is a motion that means "to the end of the word". "ce" is useful.

/searchterm<enter>nN

When searching, "n" to search forward, "N" to go backwards. Start with "?" to aways go backwards. I had forgotten about "N".

:#,#s/old/new/g

Do a search and replace only between two line numbers.

:%s/old/new/gc

Do a search and replace with prompts.

:r !shellcommand

Execute a shell command and insert the results at the cursor.

R

This is over-write mode.

partial-command^D<tab>

Show possible command completions, then tab to complete.

evim

gvim in "easy" mode.

In the Vim tutorial, there's a mention of "$VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim" which I had never seen before. This helped me to improve my own .vimrc:

" These are general settings.
colorscheme torte
set autoindent  
set guifont=Monospace\ 9
set hlsearch
set incsearch
set ruler
set showcmd

" Allow backspacing over everything in insert mode.
set backspace=indent,eol,start

" "T" toggles the taglist for ctags.
map T :TlistToggle<CR>

" Enable file type detection.  Use the default filetype settings, so that
" mail gets 'tw' set to 72, 'cindent' is on in C files, etc.  Also load
" indent files, to automatically do language-dependent indenting.
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on

" Put these in an autocmd group, so that we can delete them easily.
augroup vimrc
au!
autocmd FileType css         setlocal sw=4 sts=4 et
autocmd FileType html        setlocal sw=2 sts=2 et
autocmd FileType java        setlocal sw=4 sts=4 et
autocmd FileType javascript  setlocal sw=4 sts=4 et
autocmd FileType mason       setlocal sw=2 sts=2 et
autocmd FileType ocaml       setlocal sw=2 sts=2 et
autocmd FileType php         setlocal sw=2 sts=2 et 
autocmd FileType perl        setlocal sw=4 sts=4 et
autocmd FileType python      setlocal sw=4 sts=4 et tw=72
autocmd FileType scheme      setlocal sw=2 sts=2 et
autocmd FileType sql         setlocal et
autocmd FileType htmlcheetah setlocal sw=2 sts=2 et
autocmd FileType text        setlocal sw=2 sts=2 et tw=79
augroup END

Now that I know how to turn on intelligent indentation *and* still control it on a per-language basis, I'm even happier :)