Someone known as “sw dev” replied to the Usevim Feedburner email with ag.vim, a fork of ack.vim which has been adapted to work with The Silver Searcher.
Include file searches (:help include-search) can be useful for navigating around large files. You can do things like:
:help include-search
I was working with a particularly unfriendly SQL dump file which was raising errors indicating that my data had the wrong amount of columns. To figure out what was going on, I used Vim to count the number of columns and then corrected the data using a substitution…