Vi Guru..

Vi Water Walkers

In plain vanilla vi on tru 64, how does one access the the command/search history
eg
:1,$ s/this/that/g

then
:1,$ s/then/this/g

go edit the search you have to retype the whole line

apparently n is supposed to get the command history but it doesn't In VIM on Linux the command history is conveniently available using the up arrow

vi on tru 64 gets all wigged out... making life very painful

You have to be in edit mode even when your in the --> : search thingy

any pain relief for vi on tru 64 shared with the same UID ?

something in the way of ... set -o emacs set vi -lesspain

TIA
bob

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