What Vim features do you use? [closed]

What Vim features do you use? [closed] "I spend almost all day programming in Vim and I am sure that a lot of you do too. What features do you use that make your day to day coding that much better? One that I use is gv, which will let you reselect the previously selected text. It is great for reindenting!"
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=% for auto-indenting everything within a block of code.

Guest [Entry]

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Hitting the . key repeats the previous command. Lovely for, say, editing an .ini, or so."

Guest [Entry]

syntax color highlighting

Guest [Entry]

I am always using gq to re-do line breaks on email, text files, etc. Really useful when replying to email (I use pine) and editing multiple previous replies.