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The command-line history is one of 5 history lists kept by vim.

Use the arrow keys to move up and down in the list

:<up>
:<down>

Search is limited to a startswith pattern search. For example find the youngest command starting with echo, then find the second youngest:

:echo<up><up>

Set the size of the history

:set history=1000