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I have my colon key remapped to switch with semicolon using both nnoremap and vnoremap. This works fine except when I want to repeat the last command line with @:.
Unfortunately, the remapping does not work when doing this, so I have to type Shift-@ and Shift-: instead of just Shift-@ :
Why is the remapping not working in this context?
You have to remap @: as well:
nnoremap @; @:
You might as well remap q: while you're at it:
nnoremap q; q:
q: opens the command-line window, where the command line can be edited just like editing text in any window. See :help cmdline-window, :help q: and :help E119 for details.
Jun 26, 2016 at 14:29
q is not unbound. It's a prefix for recording macros and opening command line editing.
v, V, and K are unbound. Maybe it's talking about original vi? Read :help normal-index, :help insert-index, and :help visual-index if you want to see all of the keys.
@;If not just remap@;.