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For instance, if I wanted to a find and replace with strings containing backward or forward slashes, how would this be accomplished in vim? Thank you!
Examples Find & Replace is: :%s/foo/bar/g
what if I wanted to find all occurrences of <dog/> and replace it with <cat\>
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Basic Search To go back to normal mode from any other mode, just press the Esc key. Vim allows you to quickly find text using the / (forward slash) and ? (question mark) commands. It is important to note that the search command looks for the pattern as a string, not a whole word.
To escape a special character, precede it with a backslash ( \ ). For example, to search for the string “anything?” type /anything\? and press Return.
In cases where you either cannot or prefer not to use alternate delimiters, you can escape the forward slashes with a backslash: m/\/[^/]+$/ for example (using an alternate delimiter that could become m{/[^/]+$} , which may read more clearly).
To search for a backslash character itself, double it \\ so that its first appearance will escape the second. For example, perhaps the most common "special character" in grep is the dot: ".". In grep, a dot character will match any character except a return.
Same way you escape characters most anywhere else in linuxy programs, with a backslash:
:%s/<dog\/>/<cat\\> But note that you can select a different delimiter instead:
:%s@<doc/>@<cat\\>@ This saves you all typing all those time-consuming, confusing backslashes in patterns with a ton of slashes.
From the documentation:
Instead of the
/which surrounds the pattern and replacement string, you can use any other single-byte character, but not an alphanumeric character,\,"or|. This is useful if you want to include a/in the search pattern or replacement string.
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