The Go distribution comes with some great tools for writing Go in Vim. I frequently use the :Import, :Drop, and :Fmt commands. The simplest way to enable all of the Vim plugins is to add the following lines to your vimrc: set rtp+=$GOROOT/misc/vim filetype plugin indent on syntax on Here is some of the functionality you get from the plugins: :Import :Import is a Vim command for importing Go packag