#Tip34: Recall Commands from History
Vim records the commands that we enter in Command-Line mode and provides two ways of recalling them:
- scrolling through past command-lines with the cursor keys.
- dialing up the command-line window.
: switch to Command-Line mode
##<UP> <DOWN>
previous and next Ex command
can filter the command by pretype::co
##<C-p> <C-n>
previous and next Ex comand
can not filter the command, just previous and next comand
Note: By default, Vim records the last twenty commands, you can set by : set history=200 in vimrc.
/ switch to search prompt
all keys can use like before.
Meet the Command-Line Window
Note: Avoid the Cursor Keys When Recalling Commands from History.
you can create the mapping:
cnoremap <C-p> <Up>
cnoremap <C-n> <Down>
##q: (Normal mode)
meet the command-line window.
Note: The Command-Line window is like a regular Vim buffer, where each line contains an item from our history. h, j, k, l can use, when you press the <CR> key, the contents of the current line are executed as an Ex command.
##merge the command
Press <CR> to execute the :update | !ruby % command.
