Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2007-02-02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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! > > In addition to the techniques mentioned by others, you could just > search backwards instead of forwards, e.g., > > ?/path/to/file
This works great! Thank you all for your responses.
