Prolitheus

Do you sometimes let loose and use tree -C?

It was only intended to solve one of the problems, as the other 'problem' is exactly what removing the names would seek to address: a person's authority/history influencing the weight of their comments within a thread. It'd really benefit people who've earned a negative following, but I don't see such a mob mentality on here as opposed to certain aggregators in which biases become apparent in just a few threads.

^[ - Same as Esc (I prefer not reaching so far to Esc)

W - move forward a Word

B - move backward a Word

You could give everyone a unique identifier per thread.

Nerd Tree is indeed a good one, and I'll add to this vimfs, which isn't a Vim plugin but rather a CLI file system browser with Vim bindings. I hardly ever actually browse my file system (zfs, grep, and locate do all of the work for me), so I'm not sure how much mileage one can get out of this (especially compared to something like Midnight Commander).

A decent intro; I'd add to the movement section these:

g$ - move cursor to last displayed character of line

Tx - move cursor backward and to the right of the first occurrence of x (reverse of tx)

And get started with split views:

^ws - horizontal split view

^wv - vertical split view

^w{h,j,k,l} - move to window in respective direction

Some decent scripts to get started with:

minibufexpl.vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=159

surround.vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1697

More of a full-fledge suite, a frontend to a head{ed,less} Eclipse server: http://eclim.sourceforge.net

I rely on buffers rather than tabs, too, and find minibufexplorer.vim to be a great addition: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=159

Everything should have Vim key bindings.