If you're on a dark background terminal, the hightlighting after searching in vim can be maddening. To turn it off for the session, type :set nohls.

Use split to move blocks of text around rather than having multiple terminals open. Open the file you want using the split command:

split: path/to/file

C-w and then k or j will move you between vertically between the buffers when you are not in insert mode (up and down, respectively). For example, this makes moving text between files much easier.