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> Even some really simple operations like "select entire current nesting level" are unavailable.

For anyone else looking for exactly this, here's a great vim extension that gives you "indent" objects: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3037

Awesome. I also just discovered in gvim/macvim: double-click on a paren/bracket/brace and it will select the block enclosed by it.

Or navigate using % and text objects. If you want to visually select the block: `v%`, `vib`, 'va{` etc.