Sunday, May 2, 2010

Re: How to edit in the minibuffer?

Excerpts from xiaweitang's message of Mon May 03 02:39:40 +0200 2010:
>
> Hi, I have been using vim, then emacs, now vim again. In emacs, I can still
> use the editing commands like Alt+B in the command windows (mini buffer),
> but in vim I can't use the normal editting command. Am I missing something
> here?

The mini-buffer is a commandline only.
So it even has its own set of mappings, eg tab completion support.
However you can make it behave like a vim buffer (even showing history)
by <c-f>.
Or start it using q: q? q/

Marc Weber

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