Shortcut to repeat last command?

[x-ji]

Maybe Spacemacs can add a shortcut to repeat the last command? For example if I did an ACK search in the project, I might want to quickly repeat it.

Or is there any way to cycle through command history?

[tuhdo]

Is the ack search you were doing using Helm? If so, you can press SPC h l to resume last Helm session. If you Ack search is not the last active Helm session, you can add prefix argumente C-u to select one.

You can also press f3 to store the search result into a buffer (or press TAB to open action buffer and select the 3rd one; TAB is replaced by C-z for opening action menu in next Spacemacs release), and use M-n or M-p to navigate next and previous match, M-N or M-P to go to next and previous file in the search buffer.

[x-ji]

I see. That applies to scenarios involving helm well. Thanks.

Also, for others like me who are unfamiliar with Emacs, from this Stackoverflow question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/275842/is-there-a-repeat-last-command-in-emacs, to repeat the last general command one can use C-x z, and to repeat the last "complex" command one can use C-x Esc Esc. To bring up complex command history one can use M-x M-p. Seems that commands like those of Ido can be repeated in this fashion.

[Spadavecchia]

The shorcut was changed from SPC h l to SPC r l

SPC r is the prefix for a wonderful collection of commands. Explore it.

[braham-snyder]

would it make sense for Spacemacs to bind SPC. to repeat (as in C-xz)?

EDIT: I've made a new issue for this suggestion.

[mohkale]

That would be nice, but it doesn't seem to work as well as I'd like. For example, if I use aya-create to create a snippet (SPC-i-S-c) and then auto-yasnippet-expand (SPC-i-S-e) I'd probably want to repeat auto-yasnippet-expand command multiple times. In current spacemacs, using repeat would just repeat the last literal command, which in this case would be evil-normal-state. Maybe we need to introduce a repeat command working exclusively on spacemacs-leader-keys or ignoring evil state changes?