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Play a system beep. This should not be used for any purpose other than testing the visual bell.

Lists the completion contexts used during the completion of its arguments. These context names are used in options such as autocomplete and wildcase. Note that completion must be triggered in order for this command to be effective, so if autocompletion is not active, you'll need to press the key at least once. You should also be aware that this command is only useful from the commandline.

Execute Normal mode commands commands. This makes it possible to execute Normal mode commands typed on the command line. commands is executed like it is typed. If the ! is given, mappings will not be used. commands should be a complete command. commands cannot start with a space. Put 1 space before it, 1 space is one space.

Redraws the screen. Useful to update the screen halfway executing a script or function.

Run a command. Runs cmd through system() and displays its output. Any '!' in cmd is replaced with the previous external command, but not when there is a backslash before the '!', then the backslash is removed.

Warning: Input redirection (< foo) not done, also do not run commands which require stdin or it will hang &dactyl.host;! It is possible to launch background processes, though (e.g. :! xterm &).

Repeat last :!cmd.

Clear private data items. Where item … is a list of private items to delete. These may be any of the items valid for sanitizeitems.

If ! is specified then sanitizeitems is used for the list of items to delete.

If timespan is specified then only items within that timespan are deleted, otherwise the value of sanitizetimespan is used.

Execute a command silently. Normal messages and error messages generated by the command invocation will not be given and will not be added to the message history.

Execute a command with verbose set to count. If count is not specified then 1 is used as the value.

Show version information. You can show the &dactyl.host; version page with :version!.

Open the help page. The default page, as specified by helpfile is shown unless subject is specified. If you need help for a specific topic, try :help overview.

Open the single unchunked help page.

See :help.

Show help on Ex commands. If ! is given then the help is listed in the command output window.

Show help on options. If ! is given then the help is listed in the command output window.

Show help on Normal mode commands. If ! is given then the help is listed in the command output window.

Focus content. Exits Command-line or Hints mode and returns to Normal mode. Also focuses the web page in case a form field has focus and eats our key presses.

Start caret mode. This mode resembles the Vim's Normal mode where you see a text cursor and can move around. If you want to select text in this mode, press v to start its Visual mode.