:filetype indent plugin on
Turns on ftplugins! Took me ages to work out why they just weren’t getting read. That’s much better than setting up loads of autocommands. Just have one which sources a file once per buffer, rather than on every BufRead.
I also set up some Mac-like motion key commands, like Apple-right and such, so they behave as they do in standard OS X text controls. This will make it a lot easier for me to make the transition.