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armando
armando

Reputation: 1480

vim command line editting

is there a way to use vim/vi in the vim command line? Sometimes I write a long command in vim such as:

:!./script /home/user/pet --flag=1

and I want to change for instance "user" by "other". What I usually do is to navigate the command line with right arrow which is time consuming and even more when I want to go to the beginning of the line. I would like to have something like "0" to go there or w/b to move by words. Or use j/k to go to the next/previous command.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 555

Answers (4)

Lloyd Moore
Lloyd Moore

Reputation: 3197

If you run set -o vi you will have vim capabilities in your command line. Just put 'set -o vi' in your .bashrc file or equivalent to have it by default.

Upvotes: 0

Kent
Kent

Reputation: 195029

:h cedit
  • in command line, type ctrl-F(default) to enter command window.
  • or in normal mode type q:

(for search, type q/)

Upvotes: 6

Brian Rasmussen
Brian Rasmussen

Reputation: 116401

I'm not aware how you can use Vim commands to edit a command directly on the command line, but if you enter the command window q: you get can use regular Vim editing to edit commands.

From there you can execute commands by hitting <CR> or use Ctrl-C to copy the command to the regular command line.

Upvotes: 2

hobbs
hobbs

Reputation: 239682

Vim has a feature called the "commandline window". You can enter it with Control-F by default when you're already on the commandline, or q: from normal mode, edit the commandline using vim commands, and press enter to execute. It also contains your command history so that you can yank previous commands if you like. See :help cmdline-window for more information.

Upvotes: 5

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