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Questions on ex- or colon-commands. For questions about command-line options used to launch the editor, use the [invocation] tag.

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What is the `:'<,'>` in the command line?

The substitute command can accept a range prefix. Without it, like: :s/foo/bar/g Will just substitute on the current (cursor) line. :%s/foo/bar/g Will substitute on the whole file. :5,10s/foo/bar/g …
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Delete non-consecutive lines in command mode

I came up with this: :for i in reverse([1, 3, 4, 7]) | exe i . 'delete' | endfor This could easily be put into a function that could be called: function DeleteLines(lines) let lines = reverse(uni …
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In command-line mode, how to avoid delete key erasing last character?

Try this: :cnoremap <expr> <del> strlen(getcmdline()) == getcmdpos() - 1 ? '' : "\<del>" This binds the delete key on the :-command line to running an expression and executing the keystrokes the expr …
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How do I make my own function to insert text in vim?

The :insert command cannot take an argument like you're trying to do, it expects user input for the lines, followed by a single line consisting of a . to finish inserting. You probably want the append …
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Programatically enter Command line window

You could bind something else to open the command-line window using a noremap: :nnoremap Q: q: See :help :noremap.
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Vim8 && in :terminal's [command]

The trick is to provide the ++shell argument to :terminal: :term ++shell echo A && echo B This is because :terminal tries to execute the entire command as one command, without letting a shell interpr …
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