An important feature that all modern IDEs have is the ability to go directly to the definition of a function, or class, from where it is used. This feature is naturally available in Vim as well.
Vim doesn’t have any built-in project feature, so an external program has to be used to create the function [...]
When programming it is usual to have lots of files open and ready for viewing and/or editing. With C code this was header and source files, in PHP it is often a single file for each class used. Each language and project has their own system for splitting code across files, but once the complexity [...]
The .vimrc file is the configuration file of Vim. (For an introduction to Vim you can read my previous blog post about Vim). Since Vim is very customizable, it is important to have an easy way to keep your settings between each session. Re-entering all settings for each time you start Vim would be very [...]