On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 07:25:49PM -0700, Arias Hung wrote:
> I'm having trouble replacing question marks that appear in a text file.
> Backslash escaping to literalize it doesn't seem to be working for me:
>
> With a command like this:
>
> :1,$s/\?//g
>
> I get this error:
>
> E64: \? follows nothing
> E476: Invalid command
>
> This is using version vim version 6.4.
>
>
> If someone could take a moment to shed some light on this for me, it would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advanced.
Have you tried *not* escaping them?
:s/?//g
You can also read
:help pattern-overview
which starts a couple of lines above
:help E64
as suggested by the error message you quoted.
HTH --Benji Fisher
