VIM editor advanced tips n' tricks.

Vi IMproved is a powerful text based text editor in the UNIX world. Below are some of the most important tips I rely upon when using this text editor in my everyday work.
These tips are completely uncategorized and appear in the order I added them to this post.

• Finding opening and closing curly brackets in a code block: [{ and ]} useful if we want to locate the beginning of a long if block.
  
  
• Converting a pattern to uppercase. Suppose we want to convert the word "pattern" (without the double quotes) to uppercase. Here is how to do it in vim: :%s/\(pattern\)/\U\1/g
  
  
• Auto-completion magic: pressing Ctrl+P after typing the first letter of a word will auto-complete the word in vim.
  
  
• Basic indentation support for Java.
  In .vimrc file put the following:
  
  set autoindent
  
  set si
  
  set shiftwidth=4
  
  set smarttab
  
  inoremap { {<cr>}<left><cr><up><tab>
  
  inoremap ( ()<left>
  
  inoremap " ""<left>
  
  
• useful links:
  http://www.vim.org/tips
  http://vim.wikia.com/wiki