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Sometimes I accidentally enter a command with a typo in Vim, e.g. :e!fil instead of :e!file. As a consequence, the incorrect command clutters the history until it is evicted from the binary .vi...
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Quasímodo
·
2021-10-12T22:50:54Z (about 3 years ago)
Delete command from Vim's command line history?
Sometimes I accidentally enter a command with a typo in Vim, e.g. `:e!fil` instead of `:e!file`. As a consequence, the incorrect command clutters the history until it is evicted from the binary `.viminfo` file. **Can that incorrect entry be deleted from the command line history? How?** `:help cmdline-history` does not touch the subject. I tried deleting the dirty entry from the command-line window (`q:`) but it does not actually get deleted from the history, only from that particular window.