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Asked: 2026-05-27T05:19:30+00:00

I usually work in vim with two panes split vertically with NERDTree being on

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I usually work in vim with two panes split vertically with NERDTree being on left. I run external commands with :! and ESC out when the command is completed. Sometimes I want to run the same command again so I have to do :<up arrow>enter

To avoid this, I want to know if there is a way to have a horizontal pane at the bottom of the page that shows the last 5 external commands. In addition, it would be awesome if I can, for example, run the last 4th command by simply doing :!4 or something similar.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m sure you know about:

    @: – repeat last command

    q: – list of commands from history, you can edit and run them.

    To run Nth last command from history use this:

    command! -nargs=1 H call histdel("cmd", -1) | execute histget("cmd", 0-<args>)

    :H 4 – last 4th command

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