On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Aaron wrote:

> I am trying to make a script to run within vim, I need a way to search
> for \notes yank it delete the line it is on and then put it back.
>
> I can't quite figure out how to search for \ in vim I tried /^\notes^
> but it didn't work I then tried/^\^notes but it also didn't like it.
> so I tried /^\notes but it really didn't like it.

You need to escape '\' using '\' itself i.e. use the pattern /^\\notes
to search for a line which begins with '\notes' (or simply /\\notes if it
does not matter where '\notes' appears in the line).

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