>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.

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