> By the prompt, I mean where you typically enter commands. I'm not sure
> of the technical name for this in Vim. Is there a way to treat this
> prompt/buffer as though it were a regular Vim buffer, allowing for a
> normal mode, at least for the sake of motions?
Sounds like you're reaching for the command-history (or
search-history) windows (discussed in the last 48hr in a parallel
thread). You can either invoke it directly from normal mode with
q:
q/
or, if you're in the middle of editing a command-line, you can
invoke control+F (or whatever you've overridden it with by
changing the 'cedit' option). You can read more at
:help cmdwin
-tim
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