I've just installed vcscommand.vim, which integrates version control into vim. I was trying it out and was getting the error "No suitable plugin" whenever I ran a command. Turns out this was because I wasn't actually in a working directory, I was in the directory I initially imported. So, remove the directory and then checkout the source, now all good.

One of the most raved about features of TextMate is snippet expansion. Felix Ingram has written a Vim plugin that emulates this behaviour, SnippetEmu. I haven't had much of a play with it yet, but it looks like a real time saver. You need Vim 7, and make sure you have the following in your vimrc: filetype on filetype plugin on