VIM: disabling the cursor/arrow keys, but only for navigation

Question

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Answer 1

Use q: to open a split window of your command line. You can navigate within it normally, as it's a regular vim window using hjkl and the other usual vim motions, and hit enter to run the command under cursor.

Don't use the arrow keys to navigate in the command line history.

Incidentally, you can also access your search history using q/ or q?.