Is there a way to interact with the command-line mode while always remaining in the home position?In particular, the following two actions are cumbersome, requiring moving the fingers away to the arrow keys and sometimes worse, the mouse.Moving around: Is there a way to move back and forth in the command-line mode while remaining in the usual position?How can you copy and paste on the command-line? I mean copying both from part of the command-line itself to another part, or from the text or even clipboard.
How to work with command-line mode the vi way?
command line
There's the command-line (that you know), and there's the command-line window (the command-line in a special buffer, which you can edit just like any other). You enter this either via <C-f> from the command-line (also for / searches etc.) when you feel the need for more editing power, or directly from normal mode via the dedicated q:, q/, etc. commands.Read more about this at :help command-line-window.