Vim plugins, tips and tricks for Drupal development

Question

I am looking for usefull scripts, vim configurations and addons for Drupal development with Vim.

I am especially interested in experiences with various scripts, personal favorites and so on.

• Drupal-vim vimrc
• Configuring vim on Drupal.org

From Useful Vim plugins for web development and design (php, html, css, javascript)?

• surround.vim to enclose text in HTML tags
• jslint.vim to check for JavaScript errors and bad practices with JSLint
• jshint.vim to check for JavaScript errors and bad practices with JSHint (less brutal than JSLint)
• http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1623 to for automatic folding of PHP
• Syntastic for automatic syntax checking of e.g. PHP
• Exuberant ctags for tagging of a wide array of languages.

• Taglist Helps view/navigate source, displays call signature in status area.

• Snipmate snipmate with Drupal texmate bundle.

Answer 1

Here is a link to my .vimrc file. at gist Specific to Drupal it:

• contains a hot key ([ctrl]+[n]) for "drush cc all".
• Associates .install .module and .inc files with php syntax highlighting.
• Checks php syntax before saving a file.

Answer 2

T-Command kicks ass and is not only for Drupal development. You will love it. See the video.

https://wincent.com/products/command-t