vim: search and replace for "&"

vim

Solution

Try not escaping everything - `:.,+30s/&/&&/g` seems to work for me.

Problem

In order to replace each occurrence of "&" to "&&" in the range from the current line to 30 more lines on, I issue `:.,+30s/\\&/\\&\\&/g` but Vim says "Pattern not found". I'm escaping the special character "&" by double backslash "\".

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