Improving my coding efficiency in vim

"color marklar "use this color scheme
set shiftwidth=2 "indent equals two spaces
set tabstop=2 "tabstop equals two spaces
set expandtab "should make vim use spaces instead of tabs in autoindent
" use verymagic for searching
:nnoremap / /\v
:cnoremap '<,'>s/ '<,'>s/\v
:cnoremap %s/ %s/\v

set wildmenu
set wildmode=list:longest,full
"set mouse=a
" When editing a file, always jump to the last known cursor position.
" Don't do it when the position is invalid or when inside an event handler
" (happens when dropping a file on gvim).
" DF - Also do not do this if the file resides in the $TEMP directory,
" chances are it is a different file with the same name.
" This comes from the $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim file
augroup JumpCursorOnEdit
au!
autocmd BufReadPost *
\ if expand(":p:h") !=? $TEMP |
\ if line("'\"") > 1 && line("'\"") <= line("$") | \ let JumpCursorOnEdit_foo = line("'\"") | \ let b:doopenfold = 1 | \ if (foldlevel(JumpCursorOnEdit_foo) > foldlevel(JumpCursorOnEdit_foo - 1)) |
\ let JumpCursorOnEdit_foo = JumpCursorOnEdit_foo - 1 |
\ let b:doopenfold = 2 |
\ endif |
\ exe JumpCursorOnEdit_foo |
\ endif |
\ endif
" Need to postpone using "zv" until after reading the modelines.
autocmd BufWinEnter *
\ if exists("b:doopenfold") |
\ exe "normal zv" |
\ if(b:doopenfold > 1) |
\ exe "+".1 |
\ endif |
\ unlet b:doopenfold |
\ endif
augroup END
set hlsearch "highlight searches
set backspace=2 "better backspacing
set nocompatible "use vim features not compatible with vi
set showmatch " match parentheses
set ruler "display line and column number at bottom of screen
set ignorecase "ignore case in search and replace
set smartcase "don't ignore case if Upper Case letters appear in search

"do word wrapping for txt and tex files
if has("autocmd")
autocmd BufRead *.tab,tsv,txt set tw=78 noexpandtab
autocmd BufRead *.tex set tw=78 ai spell spelllang=en_us
autocmd BufRead *.{groovy,m,pl,grxml,xml,r} set tw=78 ai
autocmd BufRead *.{grxml,xml,py} set foldenable foldmethod=indent foldlevel=0
autocmd BufRead *.py set tw=76 sts=4 sta tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 smartindent cinwords=if,elif,else,for,while,try,except,finally,def,class
autocmd BufRead *.{php,js,css,scss,html} set foldenable foldmethod=indent foldlevel=0 tw=78 noexpandtab smartindent tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2
autocmd BufWritePre *.{php,js,css,scss,html} :%s/\s\+$//e
autocmd FileType javascript setlocal omnifunc=js#CompleteJS
endif

"control-t checks spelling with aspell
"map  :w!:!aspell check %:e! %

"control-l checks spelling with aspell with tex mode on
"map  :w!:!aspell check -t %:e! %

set encoding=utf-8 "use UTF-8 encoding to display non ASCII characters

"the next line searches for the entire line wherever the cursor is
"first move to beginning of line with "0"
"then yank til the end of the line
"then start a search, and use ctrl-R which inserts something
"in this case '"' which is the contents of the latest yank
"map
0y$:/"
set spellfile=/home/robfelty/.vimspell.utf-8.add
" the next line is for the timepie todo list macro
"map  :wI!:%!$HOME/timepie/tskproc.pl
" copy tags from previous line to current line
""" mark b, search backwards for :, move to next space or end of line.
""" append a space, mark it a,
""" move to beginning of line, search forwards to :, yank to mark a
""" move to b, then paste
"map
mb?:/\(\s\\|$\)a ma0/:y`a`bp
"imap 

"replace tags on this timepie line with those from the prev line.
"map mzk0wmx/\([\\|$\)bea mc`x"vy`cj0wd/\([\\|$\)h"vpa `zj
map mzk0el"vy/\([\\|$\)jd/\([\\|$\)h"vp`zj
"cool stuff for python

"pyfile ~/bin/vim.py
"map ) :python pythonblockFind()
"map ( :python pythonblockFind(forward = 0)

"inflect german adjectives!
map "zyiwddOi "zpa"zpae"zpaes"zpaen"zpaem"zpaer
"delete current line along with the previous and next line
map k3dd

" --- Autocompletion stuff ---
" supertab (completefunc) + latex-box (omnifunc)
let g:SuperTabDefaultCompletionType = "context"
let g:SuperTabContextDefaultCompletionType = ""
let g:SuperTabCompletionContexts = ['s:ContextText', 's:ContextDiscover']
let g:SuperTabContextDiscoverDiscovery = ["&omnifunc:"]
autocmd FileType *
\ if &omnifunc != '' |
\ call SuperTabChain(&omnifunc, "") |
\ call SuperTabSetDefaultCompletionType("") |
\ endif

" If you prefer the Omni-Completion tip window to close when a selection is
" made, these lines close it on movement in insert mode or when leaving
" insert mode
"autocmd CursorMovedI * if pumvisible() == 0|pclose|endif
autocmd InsertLeave * if pumvisible() == 0|pclose|endif