How does one escape backslashes and forward slashes in VIM find/search?
regex, vim
Solution
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.
Problem
For instance, if I wanted to a find and replace with strings containing backward or forward slashes, how would this be accomplished in vim? Examples Find & Replace is: `:%s/foo/bar/g` what if I wanted to find all occurrences of `<dog/>` and replace it with `<cat\>`