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by feanaro 1517 days ago
Oh, wow! That's so neat. Thank you for explaining. It's curious that I missed this for so long.
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It's OK, I've been a "serious" Vim user for ~7 years and I just learned about it this year. It's such an enormous program with so much functionality that is hard to fault somebody for missing any individual piece of it.

What I find weird is that there's no analogous normal mode operator command for dropping into a command line without the ! prefix. It's easy enough to write your own (good excuse to learn about "operator pending mode"), but I often find myself scratching my head at what made it into the builtin commands and what did not.