One of the most maddening things I've had to do is compile on Solaris without the warm/fuzzy GNU'ness. Remember these things:

1. add gcc
2. add bison
3. add /usr/ccs/bin & /usr/local/bin to path

If you want to split screens and only need a few lines for one of them type the following after you use your control key (Ctrl+A by default):

:resize -10 (removes 10 lines)

If you have a bunch of files in your home directory and you want to push them into ~/sort, create the directory and then do the following:

$ find . -type f -maxdepth 1 ! -name ".?*" | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' sort

Note: GNU xargs uses -i. BSD versions use -I.