fix another bug w/ new syntastic change

refs #281
fix for maven dependencies w/ dots in their artifact id

fixes #282
another cdt todo + notes on building lastest gant
fix typo in html indent + make br/input handling case insensitive

the missing 'endif' caused the logic to abort at that point with no
error message, so br/input handling has been broken for awhile.

fixes #285
add note regarding building of vim help files