[vile] command history

[Wayne Cuddy]

There seems to be something I don't understand about how command history
works. If I enter a key sequence like the following ":10,50y<enter>"
lines 10-50 are yanked and I see the complete command listed via
show-history.

If I then try this ":<up arrow>", ":10" is displayed but it never gives
me the option to re-execute the complete command and what's more
puzzling is that I can't do anything once the ":10" shows up. I can't
enter a "," or really do anything else but cancel the command and reenter
a same command completely.

The above is just an example but there are several situations in which
I'd expect to repeat a command but can't seem to figure out how to do
it. What am I not understanding?

Thanks,
Wayne