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...is a very useful thing. But it can drive me mad. Especially if it is not doing the same thing in different places. I am used to the standard tab completion of Bash, namely it completes as far as it is unique, then stops and shows after another tab (actually, two) a list of options. Vim, in its standard configuration, does something else, it completes to one of the possibles matches. And then every next tab completes to the next option. I guess it does make sense, as showing a list of options is not really that nice. But anyhow, I drives me mad, so here is how to change the behaviour (in your ~/.vimrc) to what I like:

set wildmode=longest,list

That's about the n-th time (n large) that I need to search for how to quickly sum up a bunch of numbers on the command line. So here it goes, note to self:

grep -e 'cells' *log | awk '{sum+=$6} END {print sum}'

Maybe I will memorize it now.

It happens quite frequently, that I keep hopping around in my LaTeX file to find the correct label for the \ref I want to use. That is especially annoying if the figure/section/equation that ought to be referenced is far up. And yes, I normally try to use sensible names for the labels, but the 'guess-try-fix' way gets rather annoying if doing it more than once per hour. But since I anyway use a Makefile to do the latex/bibtexing for me, there should be fancy way to just add a new target that will show me the correct tag, right?