vi: repeating colon commands

[Jon Hill_3]

I'm still a bit of a newbie to vi and have a question regarding colon commands.

Let's say I want to replace any instances of "1-a" that appear on the next ten lines with "1-h." As I understand things, I would type:
:.,+10s/1-a/1-h/g
and my replace would work just fine.

Now let's say I want to repeat the above replace commandbut only for the following five lines. Is there any way for me to call up the previous text (:.,+10s/1-a/1-h/g) and change the +10 to +5, or do I have to manually retype the whole thing?

[H.Merijn Brand (procura · Accepted solution]

:,+5&g

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[Darren Prior]

Hi Jon,

I don't believe there's a buffer of commands that you can edit. You can repeat some commands, but not change them as far as I know.

Perhaps macros might help you out? If these are commands you are going to use frequently then you could have them under 2 separate keys...

regards,

Darren.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Some editors *do* have a buffer. In elvis and vim, you can type the colon and then the up-arrow key.

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn