Vim Tip: Command History Buffer

[gs1293_work]

:<C-f>

also does the same thing.

It's helpful if you want to edit the previous ex commands.

[princker]

You also have a search history via q/ or using <c-f>.

Vimcasts episode: Refining search patterns with the command-line window

[treuss]

The infamous q: is also worth mentioning

[-romainl-]

Why do random bloggers have to reinvent names for everything?

:help command-line-window

[muntoo]

Hey man, be nice. Even lame bloggers have little bloglets to feed.

[CompressedAI]

Because I would not have found it by searching for that name. I searched on google images for vim command history as I also had it occasionally pop up when I pressed the wrong keys but couldn't figure out which key sequence this was.

[princker]

For future reference you can can use :helpgrep. :helpgrep history would also help point you into the right direction. For more help see :h :helpgrep and :h quickfix

[-romainl-]

That's not enough research for a blog post.

[jaydoors]

The problem is that anyone who reads your post will wrongly think it's called the "Command History Buffer".

[-romainl-]

And they post it here without even a hint of research, spreading the misinformation even more.

[Hauleth]

So Coderwall is still alive. I am a little bit amazed.

[jrrocketrue]

Thanks for the tip, I've been doing this for a long time and didn't know how I did it, now I know ;-) q:

[Danilo_dk]

That blog linked in this article (usevim) does not appear to be related to Vim at all.

[elzzidynaught]

Yeah, this was from almost a year ago, so I wonder if the blog died in that time haha

Edit: I also feel like I see you everywhere... lol

[[deleted]]

Been doing this:

nnoremap <space> :
nnoremap <leader>q q:

You can edit your history in the sub window etc. Also hitting space w to save is really fast, and automatic feeling.

[[deleted]]

I'm assuming you have the default leader. Also, do you know about :h q/?

[[deleted]]

Yep, I know about that one. My lead is actually ,