Is there any Ctrl - R kind of command search in vim?

Question

we have Ctrl - R command to quickly search bash command history. Is there any similar command to use in vim command history & also search history.

Answer 1

Don't have enough rep to comment, but in regards to your question about search history:

You can use q/ just like q: to view the search history.

Alternatively you can press CTRL-F from command or search mode to bring up the history.