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by pyre 5073 days ago
You can get to search history mode this way too. E.g.:

  q/ - Search string history
  q: - Ex cmdline history
  q? - Search string history
Also note that if you normally use Ctrl-C to exit Insert mode, that fails here as Ctrl-C will close the history buffer. You need to use Escape or Ctrl-[.