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What's the incantation for a symbols list in vim?

Typically, you would use something like Exuberant Ctags to generate a taglist file, which you then tell vim about using "set tags" (this process can, of course, be automated using an autocmd). Have a look through ":help tags" for all the amusing ways you can search and jump to tags in vim. Also, consider installing the taglist plugin for vim, which will get you a nice list of all the tags in a buffer.

Unfortunately, Exuberant Ctags doesn't grok CSS by default. The necessary modification is quite simple, and you can find it here: http://scie.nti.st/2006/12/22/how-to-add-css-support-to-ctag....

I generally type colon, slash, and then something like "div.perfmon span.more" and get to where I want.

The search function in VIM is very robust if you know what string to use.

Yep, that's certainly true. One nice thing about tags, though, is that they can span an entire project (whatever files you specified for inclusion in the tags file). So you can move the cursor over a function invocation, hit "ctrl-]", and jump to the definition of that function, in whichever file it lives. Hit "ctrl-T", and you're back where you started. You can search on tags directly as well, making it easier to grok large, unfamiliar bits of code (the taglist plugin really shines here).

If you drop the colon, you can turn on incremental search.

If you are consistent in ending your tag lines with an opening brace, :g/{$/p will work.

taglist is the most popular vim plugin. It gives a sidebar with your tags (in the ctags sense): http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=273

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