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Vim motion commands in the Vim command-line

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Mar 15, 20261129 views

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Sometimes in Vim, I'm typing a command and realise that I could really use Vim's motion commands for navigating the command-line: realise that I misspelled something. and be done with it. Of course, trying this would just put at the end of the command. Is there any way to get (a subset of) the vim …

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:s/somthing/else/

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Fix for: Vim motion commands in the Vim command-line

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When i need to edit a long command in command line, i use q+: then i see a list of my last commands and i can move with regular vim motions and it's easy to edit.

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Vim motion commands in the Vim command-line

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