> How can I let vim treat metacharacters as ordinary characters? so I can
> //a/b/c/d/e/f to search /a/b/c/d/e/f ?
Well, this is tricky, but for your particular case, you can do
things like manually set the search register to a pattern:
:let @/='/a/b/c/d/e/f'
n
or use "?" to search backwards instead of forwards, and then
reverse your search direction (which has about the same effect):
?/a/b/c/d/e/f
N
For not-escaping-other-characters, you may also be interested in
the "no-magic" setting and search atom:
/\Mfile[0-9]{a-z}.txt
will search for the literal string "file[0-9]{a-z}.txt" instead
of treating the "[", "{" and "." as metacharacters (terminal "$"
and initial "^" are still treated as metacharacters).
:help /\M
:help 'magic'
However, BEWARE: the 'magic' setting breaks a lot of scripts
that assume it's not set.
-tim
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