>I have a string that has lots of forward slashes. I need to search it >and delete it (e.g. unix path name). I could use a backslash for >everything forward slash and find it in vim. Is there a way I need not >do that? For now, I use 'grep -n' to get the line number and then delete >it. I don't actually type the string, I just use cut-and-paste!
Yeh, :[EMAIL PROTECTED]/with/lots/of/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@replace/[EMAIL PROTECTED] will do it. Also '#' instead of '@', whatever spins yer wheels. Either of those always worked for me, so never "experimented" as to what other chars (even alphabetic, numeric, etc.) will work or what's too magic.