OTOH, Neovim lets you edit the ex command line; e.g. '!}' might expand to ':.,.+5!', which lets you execute any other ex command simply by deleting the '!'. Th

OTOH, Neovim lets you edit the ex command line; e.g. '!}' might expand to ':.,.+5!', which lets you execute any other ex command simply by deleting the '!'. They both have advantages, and I'm certainly not advocating that forcing ex commands to work on lines is the best idea.